Posted on 01/12/2017 4:26:57 AM PST by kevcol
Mayor Jim Kenney, who lead the charge for the passage of his city’s “soda tax,” is lashing out at the business community over higher prices, even accusing retailers of attempting to stir up resentment for the tax in the community
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The 1.5 cents per ounce tax on sugary drinks is implemented at the distribution level, meaning that retailers must choose how much of the cost to pass onto consumers at the shelves.
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“From Jan. 1, it’s been completely dead,” Mohammad Alqtaishat, owner at Roxborough’s M&M Market, told Billy Penn. “I’m not making money at all.”
Some residents said they are going to start shopping for their beverages out of the city to avoid the onerous tax. The mayor continues to defend the tax, arguing it is the choice of the retailers to pass the added costs on to their customers, deflecting responsibility.
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Black market now open for business.
I am not sure where this is but it is obviously a settling pond for socialist sludge. Who in the heck would pay more in tax than for the product????
I've argued for years that gasoline stations should do the same thing, with all taxes itemized on receipts and monthly credit card bills. Let customers see that tax is the bulk of what they are paying at the pump.
What a joke. The mayor says it’s up to the merchants whether they want to pass the charge on to their buyers. And since when is tax collection a choice??
If retailers don’t collect it from consumers, who did they think was going to pay this?
The enlightened mayor of Philadelphia ....
Philadelphia Soda Tax
The Mayor and his liberal fools could give a rat’s ass about people’s health. It’s nothing more than another fleecing tax to pay for the failing programs that Philly refuses to end. Give Liberals a checkbook, and it’ll be overdrawn in a heart beat.
it is the choice of the retailers to pass the added costs on to their customers”
Golly gee, if they didn’t pass it on they’d lose .25 per sale. obviously the guy has worked for government all his life.
The article says Philly. In other words a big city, not a backwater.
It is prohibition, in a weasel way. Heck, why not ban or tax the heck out of cakes and ice cream and oreos too.
Business/Corporations don’t pay taxes. They collect taxes.
Sounds like Venezuela.
“We were paying about $71 a box for our soda product,” Morozin said, “and now we are paying $135 a box.”
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A 12-pack of Lipton Diet Green Tea at Save-A-Lot in the city is now priced at $8.03, instead of the $4.99 it costed (sic) in December.
I followed links to pull these quotes. The tax is used to fund a few pet projects of the mayor and his allies. These projects include pre-K schools and “community improvement programs”, whatever that is, besides another slush fund for City Hall.
Please note that the tax is advertised as a tax on sugar products but also includes diet drinks. Why not all sugar products?
And the mayor blames businesses for passing on the tax. The tax is written and charged much the same as Europe's VAT taxes, bundled into the cost of the product during production and distribution.
It’s probably too much to dare to wonder if Philadelphians could conceive of recalling their mayor. But if they even thought about it, we’d know that another pendulum is really starting to swing back from the far left.
Cook county(Chicago) has the same tax. Illinois lawmakers may make it state wide..
I've got more ways to generate money for Philly, just you wait and see. Taxes are fun, and we are only talking pennies here folks.
The cigarette tax in NYS is also “legal” prohibition.
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