[MountainWalker]

I’ve started making my own soda and never looked back. Get yourself a soda stream or knock off, some paintball canisters and a $20 adapter and you can make 40-50 liters of soda water for ~$3.50 fill-ups at a sporting goods store. It’ll cost a little more if you want to add syrups. Or, just pick up a tub of Tang from BJs or Costco and go nuts. Doesn’t taste exactly like orange soda but close enough.

[buffyt]

I never buy soda at grocery stores, I got fat without it. LOL. I get a Coke when we go to In n Out burger, a couple of times a year I got fat by e as ting too much, mostlyn at home. I can’t blame Coke. I blame me.

[Ken H]

They either drove across the county line or ordered online.

Who would have guessed that would happen?

[stylin19a]

I still haven’t seen any accounting for how much was collected and where the money is now....

[eartick]

the Cook County Board of Confiscators

The writer has to be kidding, right? OR do you people up north allow your county to have a board that outright confiscates your goods? Boy, I would start letting my feet do my voting to and I mean rat now..

[VRW Conspirator]

Activism. Nobody dumped soda pop in Lake Michigan as part of a “Boston Tea Party” action; nobody held violent rallies or attacked elected officials. There was no need.

Well said. But the idiots will not see it that way.

[from occupied ga]

The one part missing is the negative consequences to the jackasses who passed this egregious bit of tyranny in the first place. There were none. There were plenty of negative consequences to the businesses affected by it, but the perpetrators and their leader prickwinkle got off without any ill effects. Personally I think at a minimum tar and feathering would be appropriate, but alas, that tradition seems to have died out

[PeterPrinciple]

and with a peculiar target list of products, no cash register system could be designed to accurately collect it, so the tax is an administrative nightmare for businesses.

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Obamacare contained a provision that all expenses were to be reported on a 1099. A huge administrative nightmare. It may sound simple but it isn’t.

They were going to pay for Obamacare with unreported income but it just drove it further underground.