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.
Nutter—What an appropriate name.
City hall doesn’t care a wit about the citizen’s health .... just invent another way to raise revenue.
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.