[SkyDancer]

So people will drop back and not buy as much or none at all so then where will their none existent tax money go? It’ll be like folks who think they’ve saved a couple of hundred on a TV or something and think they’ve got money they’ve never had.

[eyedigress]

Chicago needs more money.

Liberals are funny.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Time for Chicago convenience stores to sell unsweetened tea with add your own sugar syrup on the side.

[joshua c]

Drink water

[freedumb2003]

>>But what about for fountain drinks? <<

Most MacDonalds charge a flat $1 for a drink any size with unlimited refills.

Now what?

[Vendome]

Complicated issue but, the market wilk simplify it and purchase less.....way less...

[fella]

This will hurt the ratchets in the hood the most.

[reg45]

The stores in the collar counties and northwest Indiana will be happy.

[TexasGator]

“A shopping cart that includes cases of both La Croix and diet colas will result in the former being exempt and the latter being taxed”

Well, one is flavored water and the other is well ... flavored water ...

[FoxInSocks]

the County decided to grant a massive tax break: people paying with welfare cards such as SNAP would not be subject to the tax

Obvious unfairness and ip aspic inequality aside, is this ethical? Lots of people believe these sorts of products shouldn't be permitted to be purchased with food stamps.

[i_robot73]

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Then there’s the food stamp challenge: With less than two weeks to go before implementation, the County decided to grant a massive tax break: people paying with welfare cards such as SNAP would not be subject to the tax. How to implement that… especially since the retailer already paid the tax upon receipt from his wholesaler? And is it even fair for the same customer to pay a tax when using one form of payment, but not when using another form of payment?
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Yes, taxpayer. Not only do you get the PRIVILEGE of (forcibly) supporting the poor, you get to subsidize their bad food choices too!! Govt is going to assist in YOUR choice though, and not allow the same exemption.

It’s for the public good, y’know.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Who said stupid people couldn’t be creative?

[TexasGator]

“This is a dying market.”

Lot’s of places have self-serve soda machines.

[KarlInOhio]

the County decided to grant a massive tax break: people paying with welfare cards such as SNAP would not be subject to the tax.

WTF? WTF? WTF? This stuff shouldn't be bought with welfare money anyway, but not only do they get to buy it with my money, they won't have to pay the same tax I would.

How many welfare people will use their cards to buy pop and then sell it for a price between their tax free price and the fully taxed price. Pick up fifty cases and sell them with a dollar profit instead of $2.88 tax.

[Rembrandt]

Anyone who has lived in Chicago knows this will result in a bunch of fat blacks riding the El to the first stop outside Cook County. They’ll load up on soda and truck it back on the El, taking up valuable seats.

[Mark]

These stories of Liberals in government always reminds me of that video many years ago capturing a liberal congressman or local politician who increased sales taxes and then took his tax paid car out of his jurisdiction and purchased groceries and other items.

[John Locke]

With less than two weeks to go before implementation, the County decided to grant a massive tax break: people paying with welfare cards such as SNAP would not be subject to the tax.

What a brilliant idea! Tax unhealthy products, but then exempt from the tax the very people it could most help - the overweight and diabetic, which is what a disproportionate percentage of welfare recipients are.

[Svartalfiar]

Should they both be charged the same total tax, even though it’s then based on the size of the container rather than the quantity of beverage, as the law requires?
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By contrast, this new soda tax works more like the horrible European concept known as the VAT: a retailer pays the tax when he buys a product, then gets reimbursed by passing on the tax when he sells it.

So how does this work, exactly? Restaurants generally don't buy fountain drinks by the ounce, they buy them in boxes of sacks of concentrated syrup. then the dispenser mixes the syrup with carbonated water.
- So, is the restaurant paying the tax on the size of the syrup (a couple gallons), then charging customers per ounce by the drink (makes 20-50 gallons)? They'll be making bank on the difference here!!!
- What is the tax on a one-ounce packet of koolaid or gatorade powder? What if the sugar is added separately?
- What's the bonus tax on a bulk 10lb bag of sugar? Or is this tax only on liquid purchases, in which case are the aforementioned drink mix powders also exempt? (They're dry powder, but their purpose is to make a liquid drink!)
- What about sweet tea vs Commie tea?

Finally, I guess the self-fill drink stations are gonna be removed? Can't have people getting their own unknown amounts of sugar!