These people want to control every aspect of your life.
I think your math is correct! Unbelievable! Maybe no one in Philly can do the math.
First they started with cigarettes....next, everything. Governments are blood suckers.
Hmmm. I smell lawsuit. Think about it. They're going to tax your 32-ounce fast food soda as 32 ounces of actual soda, but the cups are at least half full of ice.
Translation: Tax proceeds will also go to democrat campaign funds.
I foresee an overweight black man being chocked to death by the Philadelphia Police selling loosies cans in the streets...
For now, it will have a minimal effect on the soda industry. But over time, such measures could become problematic for an industry that has reported 11 straight years of volume declines for carbonated soft drinks in the U.S
There is only ONE WAY to remedy this, ALL These Beverage companies need to band together and STOP ALL DISTRIBUTION to Philly. If they do, this law will be REPEALED in a WEEK!!! GUARANTEED.
90% of PROFIT of ALL Fast Food, Restaurants, is BEVERAGES, Namely SODA. A Complete halt in Distribution will CRIPPLE THE ENTIRE CITY and Business Community.
These RAT bureaucrats need more money to line their pockets. They are nothing but spoiled brat Lefties who don’t care about anything but feeling good about themselves and advertising their own moral virtue to everybody else. In this case they are using their self-righteous virtue as a veil to hide their financial gain. They don’t think we can see through that?
“Game-changing soda tax”
What “game” does this “change”?
Throw the soda into the harbor. Its been done before.
Or in this case just leave it on the shelf.
Can we drink water?
The people in Philly are so stupid they can’t be trusted to decide what to drink. So the city masterminds will herd them toward preferred beverages through taxation.
That crack in the liberty bell just got wider.
This is nothing more than a cash grab. Few people will change their habits due to this pointless tax, and those imposing it are well aware of that fact.
They are after the revenue. Nothing more, nothing less, no matter what they claim.
Lots of people will be shopping outside the City limits.
Catsup has Sugar / Sucrose in it.
Sugar has sugar in it too. Dunkin, Starbucks and every other Outlet that serves Coffee had better stop offering Sugar with their Coffee.
Do I have to pay more Tax if I get a Drink Refill when I get a Big Mac for Lunch at McDonalds? Where there be a Soda Fountain Monitor?
Residents will go to the suburbs to buy their soda for home. They will also buy powder to flavor their water.
It will kill convenience stores and small sandwich shops in the city. They will have to raise other prices to make up for the loss of profits from soda. More workers from the suburb will just bring their own meals into the city for lunch because of increased prices.
Whatever they think the increased revenue will be, they will be surprised how wrong they are.
well, the poor will pay it.....those with means will simply buy outside the city.....its dirty there anyway...
The idiot mayor - Kenny - ran a pro-tax ad complaining that the evil rich soda makers were making outrageous profits on the backs of the poor - then pushes to pass this tax which will raise more money for greedy government on the backs of the poor.....
The soda companies should just stop selling in Philly. Period.