Posted on 01/10/2018 9:50:02 AM PST by Hojczyk
As noted in the article, in one of the more creative and admirable moves by a retail chain in recent memory, Costco took to changing their price signs, showing how much the beverages should cost, and then tacking on the new tax as a separate line item.
The city government appears to have been caught totally off guard by the visceral response from consumers. The majority opinion out on the streets seems to be that shoppers will be heading outside the city to shop. And considering the fact that a case of soda has now increased in price by enough to more than pay for the gas, perhaps they’ll just do all of their shopping there. Talk about behavioral modification!
***a drive through soda store on our side of the border with Albuquerque.***
Reminds me of the package store I used to get beer in Bernalillo.
[Here in California, we have multiple layers of taxes on gasoline. There’s the federal gas tax, the state gas tax, sales tax is levied on gas in California, and then there’s also a global warming tax per gallon.]
In the state of Washington a few years ago all the gas pumps had the price of gas plus the tax levied on it. Stirred some people up, it did. It stirred the legislature up so bad that they passed legislation forbidding posting the tax on gas.
The fun part is the state of Washington puts all their gas tax money into the “General Fund,” which goes to welfare and so forth. And there’s never enough money in the General Fund to finance highway construction and repair.
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