Posted on 08/02/2017 3:53:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
CHICAGO (WLS) -- People who buy drinks in Cook County may pay more Wednesday. A sweetened beverage tax went into effect at midnight.
A last-minute appeal was filed Tuesday afternoon to try and stop the controversial tax, once again, from going into effect. Originally slated to begin on July 1, the tax was postponed for a month while a judge reviewed a lawsuit questioning its constitutionality.
The so-called "soda tax" applies to more than just pop. It adds a penny-per-ounce tax to any fountain or bottled drink that has sugar or artificial sweeteners added to it. Those drinks can include anything from soda to energy drinks to iced tea.
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Unsweet tea onry now!?
Everyone’s a diabetic!
Let’s hope that the voters sour on the folks who passed this tax.
It will be cheaper to buy beer. This tax will increase drunkenness and auto accidents.
These a-holes never run out of things to tax. They do this in Filth-adelphia and just like prohibition, the black market of soda and other drinks thrives. Meanwhile the distributors shed jobs and anyone who sells soda in restaurants jacks the price. The economic impact of high tax vs the tax revenue is something a dirty,scumbag,libtard politician will never understand.
The law is to police sugar intake so why include diet sodas? Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s because Big Brother wants to dictate everything. Next will be fines for using more than 4 squares of tp 3 times per day.
It’s Chicago. Buy water a put a few shots in it.
There will be pop runners smuggling in soda from across State lines.
Yet another Democrat attack on the rich
Throw the sugary drinks in the harbor or, in this case, leave them on the shelves.
Cook County does not get the revenue
Soda distributors will scream bloody murder, threatening to withhold donations and funding a competitor who vows to repeal.
Win, Win!
Sell unsweetened drinks with premixed sweeteners so customers can mix their own to their own taste. Might cost the same but the money won’t go to the government.
It’s a beverage tax, not a “sweetened beverage” tax, since they tax any beverage whether or not it has sugar in it.
If it’s worded as in Philadelphia, the tax is calculated based on the volume of the end drink product, not the actual quantity of concentrate, so you can’t get around it that way.
Maybe the Matt Bass scheme could work?
It’s a vintage Untouchables episode.
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