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Philly’s “Soda Tax”: Not Popular, Not Fiscally Sound, Not Legal
Townhall.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Jerry Rogers

Posted on 06/28/2016 12:16:32 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

anyone check the HOTEL tax lately?

Uniform my ass!


41 posted on 06/28/2016 2:20:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Brian Griffin
US governments spend about $1 trillion per year on health care.

Why?

Gummint has NO business in the medical BUSINESS!

42 posted on 06/28/2016 2:23:28 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Brian Griffin
Even paying the tax on a two-liter bottle each day, most Philly residents will be getting far more in government services than they pay in taxes.

Such as???

43 posted on 06/28/2016 2:24:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

I work in Chester and Delaware County. No Philly Co. for me either.


44 posted on 06/28/2016 3:05:11 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Celerity

I didn’t realize you were including the cost of the car and getting it to inspection passing state in that figure.


45 posted on 06/28/2016 5:48:40 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

” including the cost of the car and getting it to inspection passing state in that figure.”

Yeah, and this is key. There is a topic for another day, perhaps another thread. There is a national (And obviously global) push to get people out of their cars and into public transportation.

Well if you get a chance, look up (facebook / youtube) Shawn Ruest out of Connecticut. He’s been fighting an Agenda 21 / Public Transportation push that’s been leaving a path of destruction. All these bus lines do is get poor people from poor neighborhoods to tattoo shops and tanning parlors.

While I’m not a tinfoil hat wearer, I can say that there is a concerted effort to keep poor people locked into a pattern of poverty. To keep them segregated from the daily paths of the wealthy or elite.

Living near Greenwich CT shows this. One of the wealthiest towns in the world, and they make sure to keep the hired help located in a specific section of town and carefully plan out bus routes and times to make sure Consuela can get to the mansion at 8am to get the house ready, and Consuela’s son can’t get to the starbucks or office park.

CT has at least a messed up (FUBAR) DMV system where you can register and drive a shopping cart that shoots flames and has a rack on the front to hold dead hookers - And you can even drive it unregistered (Well.. you have to pay a fine but you won’t get towed or impounded unless you have no insurance)

If you insure something in CT and nothing else - you can get to work. But in PA the car must be perfect, the fees must be paid and if you’ve been unemployed and lost your car, it’s broken or you simply let the reg slip you’re screwed. Your first paycheck better be $4000.


46 posted on 06/28/2016 8:20:10 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: goldstategop

LePage suggests the people shouldn’t be able to use FOOD STAMPS to buy pop, that isn’t remotely the same thing as this tax. I don’t see why you equate them.


47 posted on 06/28/2016 10:25:59 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: NFHale

Well Philly, you shouldn’t have elected these commies then.


48 posted on 06/28/2016 10:26:31 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Brian Griffin

Do you need directions to DU? Take a left.


49 posted on 06/28/2016 10:43:03 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Kaslin
The Soda tax is a good idea. They should tax beverages based on sugar content - a vice tax. This will push beverage manufacturers towards healthier drinks.

A consumption tax - ideally should be linked to lower income taxes

50 posted on 06/29/2016 2:25:08 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: goldstategop

well, this gives you the freedom to make a bad choice, it just taxes the choices more.


51 posted on 06/29/2016 2:26:12 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Celerity
The nice thing about this is that this percentage of taxes stays in YOUR area. I live in the most expensive county in the state and half of what I was paying in CT in income taxes (state and local taxes equal what I paid in CT state taxes alone) go to my schools, my towns, and my municipality.

Isn't this a good thing?

52 posted on 06/29/2016 2:27:58 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Celerity
There is a national (And obviously global) push to get people out of their cars and into public transportation.

Welcome to Indianapolis!

I won't be riding the bus; but I will be subsidizing it!


And you will; too. Indy got 'federal grants' IE tax monies from across the nation.


http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/08/11/indys-bus-rapid-transit-plan-begins-move-express-lane/31460329/

53 posted on 06/29/2016 4:40:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Impy

Not me... I’m long gone from that place.

It WAS a nice place to live, though... once...


54 posted on 06/29/2016 8:51:31 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; Kaslin; campaignPete R-CT

Update, Mayor S-Face talks up his tax at the rat convo.

http://townhall.com/watchdog/wisconsin/2016/07/27/soda-tax-jim-kenney-convention-n9686

BAD POLITICS!!


55 posted on 07/27/2016 11:05:28 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Impy

hard to see how they gonna get much revenue on this tax.

monthly trip to the suburb to buy all your 2-liter sodas.


56 posted on 07/28/2016 4:57:24 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (moving out of CT in a few years)
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To: Impy; Kaslin; campaignPete R-CT

Haha! They elected Mayor Kenny, whose nickname is “The Toilet Czar”, so they can suck on it.

I have no sympathy. I moved out of that place a long time ago, and won’t ever move back.

Ever since Rizzo went away, it went to crap.


57 posted on 07/28/2016 7:52:23 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT; NFHale

Stores just over the city line are cleaning up, I bet.

Rich liberals are the only people who would like this tax. They must know it won’t generate a lot of money, it’s social engineering. Fascism. Bitter clingers, God, Guns, Coca-Cola.


58 posted on 07/28/2016 4:45:14 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Impy; campaignPete R-CT

“...it’s social engineering. Fascism. ...”

Scratch a Lib, find a Nazi underneath. It’s pretty simple, really.


59 posted on 07/28/2016 7:57:18 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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