[CedarDave]

Gotta love it: In Santa Fe the elite population (living with Daddy’s money) pushed this tax. The lower class and majority Hispanics who would pay the price turned out in force to defeat this.

[CedarDave]

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[Mears]

Just add more taxes to cigarettes-—— no one would really care./s

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Best news from Santa Fe since 1680! The elites are on the run!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Question —. What’s with the idea of raising soda taxes with the funds to be earmarked for some odd K education program??

What does one subject have to do with the other?

Why the need for a special tax for a particular program? What about all the taxes already paid by people in Santa Fe? Where is that going and why can’t any existing tax revenue go to this, if indeed pre K programs are so deserving of taxpayer support??

[V_TWIN]

I hear Saul Goodman was instrumental in getting this nixed. :)

[Tanniker Smith]

2 cents per ounce? Seriously?

Twenty ounce bottles, which around here in NY have a 5 cent deposit, would cost an extra 40 cents on top of that.

And what about the 2-liter and 3-liter bottles? Quick, do your metric conversion everyone!

I don't want to even think about the movie beverages! (which would, if they were smart, just include this already into the ridiculous price.)

[T-Bird45]

This truly surprises me, having been in NM for the run-up to the 2012 election and seeing so many “Obama” bumper stickers. Your analysis is spot on regarding who would really pay the tax.

[Trump20162020]

The final tally was 11,533 against the soda tax and 8,382 in favor.

There is something I really hate about these types of ballot referendums on increasing taxes on tobacco or soda or whatever. The people who don't use said product will generally vote for the tax, essentially voting to tax their own neighbor for daring to enjoy something they don't. Screw them.

[Crusher138]

Very happy it didn’t pass.

If it had passed, they were going to try it in Albuquerque next.

We live in Rio Rancho, just outside of Albuquerque. I had actually already been in discussions with a developer to build a “Beverage Stop” right on the border of our communities.

Making lemonade out of lemons, ya’ know...

[jiggyboy]

Crossing them off my vacation list just for proposing it. The list gets a little longer every month but that’s ok.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bloomberg is having a bad year in New Mexico. First we stopped the ridiculous “background check” legislation regarding guns, and now this. I’ve heard between the two he sunk over a million bucks into the effort.

Hey Bloomie... for once this quote is for the better....

“Every calculation based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico.” –Lew Wallace