The power to tax is the power to destroy.
In this case it is destroying a market in one area, but opening a market in another. Pretty soon, rather then rescind the tax they will create a SODA POLICE and demand that any soda consumed within city limits have a tax stamp attached.
Then they will begin to go after smugglers.
Next thing you know there will be a black market in sodas.
And in the end they will spend more in enforcement then they get in revenue.
It was a nice touch for them to claim it was for the children. I am afraid that card has expired.
“It was a nice touch for them to claim it was for the children. I am afraid that card has expired.”
BJ Clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996 was “for the children” and gave us Big Media.
86 that POS legislation.
Then they will begin to go after smugglers.
It's like what they do in Washington DC with fireworks, which are illegal there but legal in Virginia. Every 4th the fireworks vendors spring up in Northern VA. And every 4th the DC cops park along the Potomac River bridges, halting cars to check for illegal fireworks.
Which is why we should vote to allow big city rat nests unlimited tax and regulation power within city limits. That is equivalent to nuking them.