Posted on 01/06/2018 3:36:14 AM PST by FreedomPoster
People are feeling sticker shock over Seattle’s sugary drink tax.
You might’ve seen a picture circulating on social media that shows a more than $10 tax on a $15.99 case of Gatorade at Costco. On Friday, shoppers were taking their own pictures, stunned by the new prices.
Advocates of the tax held a press conference on Friday, to explain how the city plans to use the $15 million expected to be raised from the tax in 2018.
One Costco shopper loaded a case of Coca-Cola into her cart, not noticing the new price until KIRO7 pointed it out.
“That much!” said Vilma Villagran, who was buying the case for her family.
The regular case of Coke is now $7.35 more expensive than the Diet Coke or Coke Zero.
“I knew it was going to be high, but not that crazy high,” Villagran said.
Other shoppers closely read the sign, which explains that as of Jan. 1, Seattle shoppers are paying 1.75 cents per ounce on sugar-sweetened beverages – something shoppers are really noticing when buying in bulk.
The tax has many people opting for the diet soda.
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“Have you ever wondered where the enshrinement of personal choice, i.e. licentiousness comes from? Especially as a substitute for political liberty and constitutional government.”
If you are a constitutional scholar like you claim to be, the you would know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is not limited to “political liberty”
Usually people that stop doing diet soda also make other changes that are actually the cause of the weight loss (eg: less burgers and fries and more chicken and broccoli, cutting back on alcohol, and increasing working out). It’s possible diet coke causes cancer on the margin but it does nothing directly to gaining weight.
Diet drinks are exempt, for now.
Just wait, when the expected money does not start rolling in the ordinance will be revised to include diet drinks.
Oh, IDK. I like a good debate, and it's fun to debate socialist I-wanna-save-the-world everything-is-bad-except-what-I-like do-gooders like BadBoo.
So your beloved government getting their cut will cure all that?
What’s going to happen when Seattle doesn’t realize the tax revenue when people simply stop buying it?
If I'm not mistaken pure sugar is the most NATURAL for you body to handle.
As the GOOD BOOK recommends.. "moderation in all things."
Sugar used moderately by an active person is probably much safer that all that crap in the diet drinks.
I drink TWO Cokes a week and have for 30 years. I'm doing just fine.
Consider this if an altruistic tyrannical city government was all so very concerned about health effects of consuming sugary drinks then why don’t they ban them instead of taxing them? That’s right it’s all about the extraction of $$$$ packaged under the guise of leftist concern for the dignity of others BS.
“And those diet sludge drinks aren’t healthy either.”
Don’t tell Trump. 12 cans a day. That’s a little more than I drink.
But this is SEATTLE. Worst part of living near there for a few years was that everybody I met believed they had the right to regulate every detail of my life. Seattle is unrepentant Stalinist Russia embedded on our west coast. One might as well go live in a gulag as live in Seattle.
If they are a TRUE LIBERAL government they will simply find something else to TAX.
It's about MONEY not health.
As someone else already stated.. "if it was really about health they'd ban the drinks."
More likely it's a middle ground short of outright banning a substance that has been part of most human's diets for a few centuries now. Not sure this is entirely a leftist plan as such taxes have been assessed on alcohol and tobacco in most every state in the union for decades.
Sugar might simply join alcohol and tobacco in the harmful, but permitted and taxed category.
The reason for obesity in this country is not the sugar. Most people don’t drink a huge amount of sugary soda per day. The real problem is portion control. I work with some obese people. They make sure that they eat three full meals a day, loaded with carbs. They also snack in between. In my parents generation, food was expensive and people did not have as much income. Food was portioned out at mealtimes. You did not see gluttony. Now, food is cheaper and we are eating more of it.
Taxing sugar drinks is not going to accomplish anything.
“Coke and sugar is basically long term rat poison leading to obesity and disease.”
You mean, like in the 50s, when Coke was sold in 6 oz servings and few people were fat?
Nope. I have Demon Sugar in my Demon Coffee right now. OMG! But I’m pretty healthy.
“You must really not care.”
Nothing worse than someone who wants to control other peoples’ lives because “they care so much”!
Excitotoxins are a mixed bag. When you drink these chemical poisons they MIGHT also screw with your behavior. Do diet cola drinkers then gain weight due to other factors?
Enjoy your poison. Indirect effects may make you just as fat as direct effects.
“It is Big Ag trying to stuff more profits into their pocket hoping they get enough out of you while you fatten up and die from preventable disease.”
Really? You mean a million farmers and thousands of companies are conspiring to murder their customers? How did you wander to FreeRepublic, and what part of “Free” and “Republic” do you not understand?
Create an enemy. Tax an enemy.
Baboo was the kid on the play ground they always found tied to a tree.
In Canada municipalities have no right to impose income or sales taxes. They are restricted to property taxation. Municipalities are created by Provincial law in Canada and can only exercise powers granted to them by the Province. A municipality should never be permitted this type of taxation.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What does that even mean anyway?
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