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Mayor Passes Massive Soda Tax, Blames Business For Rising Prices
The Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | January 11, 2017 | Steve Birr

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: jimkenney; philadelphia; sodatax; taxes
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To: kevcol

...story out of Philly this am about a street thug
beating up a 60 year old woman because the price
Increased of a sandwich....the thug had no problem squirting the beverage through a protective barrier which prompted the woman to come out to address him.....which lead to the beating...the cost thing is because of the “soda tax” not the sandwich. There will be other posts I’m sure.


21 posted on 01/12/2017 5:01:23 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: kevcol

Control freaks need to be slapped...hard.


22 posted on 01/12/2017 5:02:42 AM PST by kanawa (The 1st job of a 'community organizer' is to disorganize the community)
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To: kevcol

How dare the stores pass on the tax to their customers. They make such enormous profits that they can easily absorb the tax. (sarc)

And so obvious a statement to blame the businesses for having to raise prices to cover a new expense mandated by the local government.


23 posted on 01/12/2017 5:07:44 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: freedumb2003

IS he going to jail little muslim girls selling lemonade?


24 posted on 01/12/2017 5:16:08 AM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: GreyFriar

The government is the true greed.

What billionare spends 81 million in vacations?

Obama did and in a way that makes the expenses of tin pot dictators in Ukraine and Romania pale in comparison.


25 posted on 01/12/2017 5:17:34 AM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: kevcol

O’Reilly came out against sugar on the tip of the day.


26 posted on 01/12/2017 5:35:24 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Lion Den Dan

“Who in the heck would pay more in tax than for the product????”

Buyers of cigarettes and alcohol have been doing it for years. You just don’t see it itemized at the cash register.


27 posted on 01/12/2017 5:41:00 AM PST by wrench
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To: Pearls Before Swine
The article says Philly. In other words a big city, not a backwater.

Like I said, it is a settling pond for socialist sludge. Big cities can be very backwater and unimportant.

28 posted on 01/12/2017 5:46:34 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: kevcol
A carton of Pall Mall 100s is $70 in PA and $36 in VA...just saying.

There ain't no sugar tax outside of the Philly city limits...


29 posted on 01/12/2017 5:46:59 AM PST by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: Sacajaweau

They’re supposed to pay it and then sell the product at a loss (which also would defeat the purpose of curbing the consumption)...


30 posted on 01/12/2017 5:48:48 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: kevcol

What a good little Commie bastard. People like this shouldn’t be allowed to breath.


31 posted on 01/12/2017 5:59:17 AM PST by ohioman
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To: Lion Den Dan

>>Who in the heck would pay more in tax than for the product????

Smokers. Cigarettes could be sold US tax exempt for something like $0.50 per pack, the rest is tax.


32 posted on 01/12/2017 6:00:21 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~ur/base/*)
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To: occamrzr06

Suck it ignorant liberals in Philly! They voted for it! They should be cheering!


33 posted on 01/12/2017 6:02:16 AM PST by gr8eman (Keep Winning!)
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To: freedumb2003

Another cure order beer or WATER.


34 posted on 01/12/2017 6:06:24 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: kevcol

Mayor institutes a tax then blames the soda distributers for raising prices to cover the city mandated cost. What a P.O.S. Has to be DemocRAT.


35 posted on 01/12/2017 6:07:11 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: kevcol

He’s just taking his cues from Harrisburg, which just raised the tax on gasoline refiners, but implies it is their choice to pass it on to consumers.


36 posted on 01/12/2017 6:10:23 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: kevcol

New Hampshire has been dogging out Mass. and Maine for years for taxes on beer booze and cigarettes for years .....you cross into their state and their are huge stores with tax-free booze and beer .....state congress people from Massachusetts drive up (with state owned cars) and buy in bulk...after taxing their own constituents to death on the same products....the guy Kenny is a moron but so are the voters in that area. Brew your own beer or even distill your own booze...its not hard and you will be surprised how it can pay for itself in time ....


37 posted on 01/12/2017 6:26:43 AM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: kevcol

Expect a jackboots cracking down on sale of untaxed soda.


38 posted on 01/12/2017 6:38:37 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: vikingd00d

Back in 2000 Bloomberg raised the cig tax. They went up if I remember correctly a dollar or more a pack. My wife and I smoked 2 pks a day at the time. We put the cigs back and never smoked again. They said oh the reason was my health bs it was for additional revenue which they lost from us


39 posted on 01/12/2017 6:54:21 AM PST by italianquaker
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To: kevcol

So is this going to apply “across-the-board” city wide to include “soda fountain” sales also??

If it does, would that also mean fast food places along with restaurants and sport venues?

IMHO, if this mayor doesn’t hire a food tester and someone to start his car, it will finally come to him when nobody on the planet will give him a life insurance policy with an annual premium cost for less than the cost of a new 2017 Maserati.


40 posted on 01/12/2017 6:59:17 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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