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Philly is poised to be the first major city with a soda tax — by focusing on money, not obesity
Tonight, a city council committee approved a modified version of Kenney's proposed plan: a 1.5 cent levy per ounce of both sugary and diet drinks. The tax is expected to clear a final vote next week, and when it does, Kenney's approach could be a model for other mayors across the US who have been trying to push through similar measures for years.
Philly is poised to be the first major city with a soda tax — by focusing on money, not obesity - Vox
Uhh didn't NYC already do this under Boomberg and then the courts said it was arbitrary and unconstitutional. Oh they are doing it on diet drinks too. .. I'm still skeptical it will hold up.
That's a $2.16 tax on a 12 pack of soda. There's no way that will last.
the soda industry has already spent millions fighting it. you'll consume what those companies TELL YOU to consume
morons are imposing a sin tax on diet soda, too, if the article that i looked at is correct.
Philly is poised to be the first major city with a soda tax — by focusing on money, not obesity
Tonight, a city council committee approved a modified version of Kenney's proposed plan: a 1.5 cent levy per ounce of both sugary and diet drinks. The tax is expected to clear a final vote next week, and when it does, Kenney's approach could be a model for other mayors across the US who have been trying to push through similar measures for years.
Philly is poised to be the first major city with a soda tax — by focusing on money, not obesity - Vox
You wait, the government is hard up for the ability to tax enough to pay its bills, they will keep rolling out more sin taxes for for as long as they can get away with it.
This bill in Philly at least they don't even make a pretense that this is about health... its a money grab plain and simple. The Mayor isn't even trying to sell it as a health related bill.
taxes like these negatively and unfairly effect the poor, these kind of taxes (if they exist at all) should be directly imposed on the manufacturers, never the consumers
the soda industry has already spent millions fighting it. you'll consume what those companies TELL YOU to consume
Why not just tax the fat people for being fat if that's what they trying to stop?
Stupid tax is stupid. Soda is the least of our worries when alcohol has so many calories, drinks at coffee chains usually have 300+ calories in them, and a myriad of other beverages people consume are high calorie too.
taxes like these negatively and unfairly effect the poor, these kind of taxes (if they exist at all) should be directly imposed on the manufacturers, never the consumers
the poor are the people most susceptible to being poisoned by the food processing industry.
Have you been watching Philly? The place is basically an economic and social disaster......population growing because the migrants are flooding in, jobs in decline, I think too quality of the jobs still in decline, this with the city being in general decline since sometime during the 60's.
Desperate times/deserate measures.
I cant imagine that a tax on soda is going to help jobs.
Philly has a city wage tax of 3.9102% for residents that's on top of any fed, state and county taxes.
In addition they have a 2% sales tax on top of the county sales tax of 6%.
They ad a 5% tax on any amusement like going to ball games, concerts, movies.
They add an 8.5% tax on to hotel stays.
hell they even tax valet parking 22.5%
there is a bunch of others and Pensylvania has a somewhat high property tax rate.
its no wonder people don't want to work or live there that's why its a disaster.
taxes like these negatively and unfairly effect the poor, these kind of taxes (if they exist at all) should be directly imposed on the manufacturers, never the consumers
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