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Posted on 03/04/2010 7:09:35 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
Mayor Nutter wants to treat the city's weight and wallet problems in his 2010-11 budget with the same remedy: the nation's highest tax on all sweetened beverages including soda, energy drinks, ice tea, even chocolate milk.
Nutter's plan would put Philadelphia at the front of the movement to tax sweet drinks, an effort that the beverage industry already opposes and that could encounter resistance in City Council.
The tax rate would be 2 cents per ounce, 40 cents on a 20-ounce bottle of soda.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Okay,just don’t do it to my Malt!
One day, half the population is overweight in the USA.
The very next day the same population is underfed with all the food banks running out of food and unemployed unable to buy groceries.
Didn’t taxes on smokes and booze start out as only a few cents? :)
A 2-cent tax will not discourage anyone from drinking anything. This is a transparent attempt to justify a tax increase and money grab on the part of the city government. How dumb does he think people are.
In other news, business is booming at Costco and BJs stores located in Philly suburbs.
Too bad he can’t tax stupidity. He could have the budget back in line tmw.
At least the mayor’s last name is appropriate...
Nutter—What an appropriate name.
City hall doesn’t care a wit about the citizen’s health .... just invent another way to raise revenue.
Two cents per ounce is the proposal. That would be sixty-four cents on a 32 oz. Big Gulp from Kwik Trip. Plus sales tax.
I got that. My point is, the fact that the price of Coke has risen from 10-cents for eight ounces in the 1960s to whatever it is now, about $1.25, I think, has not discouraged people from drinking Coke. More of it is consumed now than ever before. I seriously doubt this is going to stop people who habitually drink Coke from drinking Coke in the way the mayor says it will, and I think this is a money grab.
It's 2 cents an ounce. That's 24 cents on a can of soda and more than a dollar on a 2 liter bottle.
It's a scare tactic and the soda and trash taxes won't be as high when they're done hashing things out. I have never seen people as angry as they are now in Philly. (I was born and raised in Philly, now live in a first ring suburb). First, their property taxes got raised by assigning people their true market value of their homes and now this. People are livid.
Acmes inside the city, like the ones in Roxborough and Andorra might as well just close up shop if they pass this thing (which they won't). If the better off people from Manayunk, Roxborough, and East Falls have to go outside the city for their Cokes, they might as well do the rest of their shopping there too.
I think they'll probably increase the city wage. They'll do just about anything except reduce spending.
Well, it won't because Philadelphia is a city where most of us have cars. When the Acme just over the city line has 2 liter Cokes going ten for $10, people who drink soda will stock up.
The few people who don't have cars are the yuppies, who probably don't drink much coke anyway, and the folks on on food stamps, who don't care how much you tax soda because they're not paying it.
Every tax is a money grab, and this proposed one is no different.
If you address the “weight” issue, it will kill the revenue - and vice-versa. And you know damn well the “poor/minority/historically underprivileged” will nto be assessed the trash tax - and that’s more than 50% of the population.
No, this will have about the same impact as any other tax in the inner city. Might as well start a bonfire with the money to keep the indigent homeless warm. Start with the ones that encircle City Hall.
One of the many reasons I avoid the city like the plague, and on the rare occasions I’m unable to, refuse to spend one dime there.
La Lydia, the 1960’s was over 40 years ago. And the price of Coca-cola is not something that is rational. The price of the “small bottle” (6.5oz) of Coke was 5 cents in 1886. It was 5 cents in 1959.
That’s correct! The price of the small bottle of Coke did not change for 73 years!
Not really the product to judge inflation by.
And when you can get the 32oz Coke at McDonalds for 99 cents on a regular basis, you are still looking at a breakdown of price of 3 cents an ounce.
Adding a tax of 2 cents per ounce is a 66% tax on that beverage and changes the 99 cent Large Drink to a $1.63 Large Drink.
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Forget about the soda, the trash is what the people in the Roxborough and Andorra sections are fired up about.
I don’t drink soft drinks, and was only rarely allowed them as a child. But I will say that quadrupling the cost of say, gasoline, didn’t stop people from driving. This is a money grab, and it is not enough of a tax to stop people, cold, from drinking soft drinks. The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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