Hits Keep Piling Up Against Philadelphia Soda Tax

Political Calculations ^ | February 15, 2019 | PC

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’m sure the liberals are just shocked that this could happen. But it was predictable.

The liberals may never learn, that imposing taxes or other regulations, causes people to change their behavior.

Ocasio-Cortez and her lackeys may well come up with projections showing that they will raise “X” amount of tax revenue by going to the 70% tax rate on high incomes. But in the real world, if that were implemented, they would be shocked to learn that due to changes in behavior, that the tax revenue didn’t materialize.

[SkyDancer]

But yet I bet they allocated that perceived tax money on some liberal cause and then are mad that it didn’t come to fruition.

[Intolerant in NJ]

According to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday, corrupt Democratic city officials and electricians’ union leaders pushed through the soda tax in 2016 in a revenge feud against the Teamsters union, instead of a motivation to affect public health...no, no, no - say it isn't so - Imbecile Mayor Kenney pushed the tax publicly so the city would have money to provide Pre-K for all - it was really for the children dontcha know - the very day the closing of the Shoprite store became known he scheduled a big event with all the press in some school to celebrate how big a success the Pre-K program had been in such a short time, and was pictured on all the local TV channels that night surrounded by the happy little kiddies - all minority of course - the Shoprite story was all but dead and buried.......

[Mark]

Just build a wall around the city. Roads to enter can be used to search cars for sodas and proof of shopping outside of the city. Jail violators for two weeks and then force the wearing of GPS ankle bracelets for future monitoring.

[Wuli]

” that the tax is achieving a disproportionately negative impact by imposing “a relatively larger financial burden on low income/high obesity households that are less likely to engage in cross-shopping at stores outside of the city.”

The tax and its affect is just like “minimum wage” laws.

They increase labor costs. Those least able to absorb those additional costs are those in retail who aree closest to serving many folks who are among those the “minimum wage” laws are sold as going to help. What they get in a new minimum wage is in part taken back in higher costs where they shop.

The soda tax is having the same affect. Increasing costs and costing jobs in the markets whose folks were supposed to be the big beneficiaries of the tax. Paternalistic taxes don’t always work (they may have helped when it comes to cigarette use).

[b4me]

“Just build a wall”

can’t, it’s immoral.

[EEGator]

Maybe instead of worrying about soda, they should worry about all the ghetto trash in North Philly...

[i_robot73]

Learn?? Outside of the $$ lost, the Left only care about one thing: CONTROL.

The plantation voters will continue to vote ‘em in (maj. race based) and the ‘opposition’ will continue to sit on their thumbs and be ineffective, mute eunuchs.

[magamomma]

That Shoprite was the local store where I grew up, My dad would walk there daily.

[freedumb2003]

like Canada and booze

[Svartalfiar]

The store closure is expected to add another 100 jobs to that running total of attrition.

A convenience store that has 100 employees? Holy crap no wonder he's not doing well. I'm sure the soda tax hurts, but I think I found his main problem right there!