Posted on 05/07/2017 2:42:24 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The mayor of Seattle has altered the rules of his proposed soda tax which would fund education for minoritiesto include diet drinks because affluent white people tend to consume them more.
Mayor Ed Murray of the staunchly liberal Seattle city originally proposed the soda tax during his state of the city address in February. Under his initial plan, distributors of sugary drinks would have to pay 2 cents per ounce.
It would cover sodas such as Coke and Pepsi, energy drinks like Red Bull, fruit drinks, sweetened teas and bottled coffees such as those sold by Starbucks.
The Mayor claimed the tax would bring $16 million in revenue that would be spent on education programs aimed at reducing disparities between the citys white students and students of color.
But the mayor has updated the plan after the staff of the mayors office told him that the tax would actually disproportionately fall on poor minorities, who have higher rates of soda consumption than white residents.
Murray changed the bill, lowering the levy to 1.75 cents per ounce and included diet drinks because they are by favored by affluent white city residents, despite the fact that most diet drinks have no calories and therefore dont contribute to obesity.
According to Reason, taxing diet drinks has become an issue of equality to the mayor because they more likely to be consumed by upper middle class white people and therefore must be taxed as a way to fight white privileged institutionalized racism.
The white privilege tax may be a distraction for Murray, whos facing accusations from four men that he paid for sex and sexually abused them in the 1980s when they were teen boys. A high profile lawsuit from one of the men filed last month claims that Murray raped and molested him over several years, beginning in 1986 when the man was a 15-year-old high-school dropout. Murray has denied the accusations
That is what will start occurring.
The North has leeches sucking on your paychecks.
The mayor is a self -hating racist.
Probably has mommy problems too.
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It is a Fourteenth Amendment issue (denial of Equal Protection.)
We should then be able to add on “liberal socialist taxes to items.
Like $50,000 gay wedding cake tax.
Because Trump announced during his complain that he would stop Muslims from entering the country ?
Same thing. Soda tax has nothing to do with health. Its about soaking those of us that work and limiting our choices.
Specifically rich white people.
This idiot mayor just might want to touch bases with the idiot Philadelphia mayor:
“. . .Since this [1.5 cents per ounce]tax has gone into effect on Jan. 1, consumption of the sweet drinks is off by as much as 50 percent, according to retailers, and companies involved in getting these drinks to consumers are reporting huge losses and announcing layoffs.”
FRom http://nypost.com/2017/03/05/phillys-soda-tax-is-crushing-the-citys-beverage-business/
They should tax taxes since white people seem to be the only ones who have the “privilege” of paying them.
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Yep, snow. But it is so dry here that a broom works for clearing your windshields 90% of the time.
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“The mayor of Seattle has altered the rules of his proposed soda tax...”
I hope he doesn’t also apply it to pop.
Right? What is soda???
Ask your city commissioner.
Maybe Rachel Dolezal had the right idea all along.
Hear, hear! Stick it to the man!
Obeying the law and not being arrested is a white privilege issue and a racist micro-aggression.
The only fair way to remedy the issue is arrest a randomly selected white every time a black is arrested. /s
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:)
Ummm, not up in them thar hills !!
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