Posted on 06/06/2017 1:00:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Seattle City Council on Monday approved a new tax on soda and other sugary beverages as way to raise millions for healthy food and education programs.
The ordinance calls for a tax of 1.75 cents per ounce to be paid by distributors of beverages such as Pepsi and Coke, sports drinks, energy drinks and other sweetened drinks. The tax excludes diet drinks.
Supporters such as public health advocates and community groups cheered after the measure passed on a 7-1 vote.
Mayor Ed Murray proposed the idea in February to raise millions for programs that promote access to healthy food and help address education disparities between white and minority students.
Some of the money raised by the tax would also go to job retraining and placement programs for workers adversely impacted by the tax.
Community groups backed the measure because it would direct money to programs aimed at helping working families that can't afford healthy foods.
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Let's check back in a few months to see how many millions the tax has raised...
The way the City of Seattle is going, all their businesses will be relocating to the surrounding suburban towns, leaving a hollow shell with a bunch of lost liberals wandering around in search of places to eat, buy food, and recreate.
Before one starts indicating “didn’t they see how it failed in Philadelphia,” they don’t care. They only care about power and restricting yours. Telling you what you can and cannot buy is a big part of it.
LMAO
Next, Directive 10-289
The Seattle City Council on Monday approved a new tax on soda and other sugary beverages as way to raise millions for healthy food and education programs...? Not if no one buys the crap because the price is to high...Hello?
No tax on food stamp purchases = a money-making opportunity for the criminal class.
Workers will buy their sodas from the preyers on the poor.
A perfect Progressive policy!
Morons.
I guess Seattle lawmakers are too stupid to look at what the effect is in Philadelphia where hundreds have lost jobs and projected income is fractional.
But, in typical liberal fashion, Philadelphia wasn’t doing it right. We will.
Now the GOP should immediately get these items removed from the list of items Welfare recipients can purchase.
Sorry, I was typing my Philadelphia response about the same time you were posting.
They are still morons or is idiot lower on the IQ scale.
Yep, and that tax will be passed along to consumers.
Why do liberal types think, that if they raise taxes on a business, that somehow the taxes won’t eventually be passed on to the customers of that business??
I know it’s a great sound bite for people to say, let’s raise taxes on Exxon/Mobil or Wal Mart, or in this case, Pepsi and Coke.
But those taxes will eventually be paid by anyone who buys those products. But the politicians act as if that won’t happen.
And the politicians also act as if they will raise the amount of tax revenue anticipated, when they pass these tax levys. When actual tax revenues fall short of the projections, they are shocked, just shocked, that people changed their behavior to pay less of those taxes.
In this case, as we saw in Philadelphia, many will choose to buy these products outside the city limits of Seattle, to avoid the tax.
Seattle trying to play catch up with other libtard strong holds such as NY city, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Just another potential vacation tour stop crossed off my list.
As a resident, I can tell you this is not the case. The city is experiencing growth at a break-neck pace. I just don’t get it.
They don’t care the goal is to find ways to extort money from people or companies under the lie of “helping” people. None of that money will be marked for nutrition programs, whatever the hell that means anyway.
Just like lottery and cigarette money was supposed to go to education and healthcare. Pfffffffffffffffffffff
I’ve been saying NYC has to do the same.
They have to pay for all the illegal alien invaders’ in-state college tuition and healthcare somehow.
Lower yet. They are deluded liberals.
They voted for the people who supported it because it “felt right”, just as the $15/hour minimum wage was the “right thing to do”. Economics? We don’t need no steenking economics.
Don't misdiagnose an evil commie for being stupid. They want you to think they are stupid. That way it is easy to let your guard down.
This is the type of thing that will cause severe economic damage to every supermarket within King County, WA. Doesn’t the Mayor see what happened in Philadelphia, when supermarkets just outside the Philadelphia city limits did land office business because of no soda tax?
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