Some Philly residents up in arms about 1.5 cent-per-ounce soda tax. Anyone live there?

That will more than DOUBLE the cost of a 2L.

They are so fukkiiiiing stupid they call it a sugary tax but tax drinks that have no sugar.

This is why I would NEVER livei n a big city cesspool.

It's a stupid tax. If schools and roads are so important (and they are), you should pay for them with a broad-based tax. Taxing soda and not the hundreds of other food products that are just as unhealthy is obviously not equitable and also regressive.

That said, people who drink soda in bulk are gross.

Im on a fixed income and live on Geno's cheese steak, soda, sack of Utz Chips and a Little Debbie Snack Cake.

This is gonna hurt.

Where I live the Green Party proposed this about 10 years ago. I told them it would fail because they would simply be redistributing the money back to those who are consuming the sugar.

RockyBalbo wrote:

Im on a fixed income and live on Geno's cheese steak, soda, sack of Utz Chips and a Little Debbie Snack Cake.

This is gonna hurt.

Little Debbie? Tastycakes you f'n poser.

Butterscotch Krimpets 4 Life!

Xanax wrote:

Jcjc wrote:

Your opinion is completely nuts. Sugary beverages are not toxic. Your body runs on sugar. This is why we use science and facts not ignorant opinions.

You obviously don't have an understanding of the difference between monosaccharides, disaccharides and oligosaccharides so I'd recommend just not weighing in on this one.

As a cell biologist, I do have an understanding of those things. The only thing obvious here is that you have a reading comprehension problem or don't know what "obvious" means. Nowhere in my post did I say anything about monosaccharides, disaccharides, or oligosaccharides and their relation to each other. So take your own recommendation until you learn to read.

Xanax wrote:

Then they shouldn't be buying soda or Gatorade anyways. If you're really so poor that an increase of 18 cents on a bottle of soda puts it out of reach for you, why would you be purchasing that in the first place when tap water is so cheap?

And before it becomes a point of contention, I live in Philly, and the tap water is fine.

Hey genius, maybe they don't want to drink only tap water because... they don't want to to drink only tap water. People are allowed to have choices. Your logic makes zero sense. If 18 cents will cause the item to be out of their budget, then the other poster's point makes sense. Everyone's budget has a sensitivity to price increase. Just because 18 cents is that sensitivity does not mean they should not buy anything. As long as they are within their budget, then it is a fine purchasing decision.

Christmas Eve wrote:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/06/philadelphia-residents-up-in-arms-over-soda-tax-hit.html

How are you holding up?

There is a lovely mix of clever trolling and earnest nitwits here.

Don't drink sugary drinks, so it doesn't affect me, but I think it's a horrible idea for the following reasons:

1) It is likely to be a regressive tax

2) The govt never gives up a revenue stream, so when they cure diabetes and stop everone from smoking, what will they tax next?

The Real Rocky wrote:

RockyBalbo wrote:

Im on a fixed income and live on Geno's cheese steak, soda, sack of Utz Chips and a Little Debbie Snack Cake.

This is gonna hurt.

Little Debbie? Tastycakes you f'n poser.

Butterscotch Krimpets 4 Life!

Ouch, ya got me.but you probably go to Pat's.

fgjhdfhgd wrote:

I'd be fine with it if it applied ONLY to sugary beverages. These things, imo, are toxic and directly contribute to diabetes and obesity.

Whew!!!

And here I thought that personal decisions to eat and drink excessive sugar in ones diet directly contributed to diabetes and obesity. It's good to know that when I become a fat slob who has to go to dialysis 3x a week because I wanted to eat whatever the hell I wanted, that it just isn't my fault...

I Drink a lot of soday and am totally opposed to the tax. Where do we stop? Why not fried chicken? Should we fine people who don't exercise?

The point of life isn't to live as long as possible.

It's more than just sodas, the following are subject to the soda tax:

Fruit juices, punches and lemonade that are less than 50 percent fruit and/ or vegetable juice. That includes popular drinks like:

Arizona fruit punches and juices (most of which are less than 50 percent juice)

Capri Sun

Goya

Hawaiian Punch

Hi-C

Little Hug

Minute Maid juices and punches that are less than 50 percent juice, including some punches and lemonades

Mistic

Nantucket Nectars

Ocean Spray juices that are less than 50 percent juice, including Cranberry, Cran Apple and similar beverages

Snapple juices less than 50 percent juice, including “Apple Drink” and Island Punch

Starbucks bottled refreshers

Sunny Delight

Tropicana fruit juices that are less than 50 percent juice, including Tropical Punch and Tropicana Twisters

V8 Splash juices less than 50 percent juice, including Apple Medley and Grape

Welch’s juices (both diet, low-cal and regular) less than 50 percent juice, including Grape and White Grape juices

This tax is an overreach and it will hurt supermarket and convenience stores. People will simply buy outside of the Philly city limits to bypass the tax.

I work in the city. The tax is on the suppliers who passed the cost entirely on the distributers who then have passed it on to the consumers and added a little more for the inconvenience. The tax is only going to get the people who can't afford to go elsewhere on sugary drinks for now. Then the distributors will lower the price on the sofa and add it to other items like milk and toilet paper. There is nothing people can do as the residents of Philadelphia keep voting for the same corrupt machine and rather than cut spending, their philosophy is to spend more by taxing people.

I can get a 12 pack of Dr pepper for $3.00. The tax would raise this to $5.16.

Ridiculous.

Why not double the price of ice cream? Or beef or cheese? Is diet soda taxed? (Studies came out showing diet soda may be pretty bad for you in terms of keeping off weight)

Cutting spending? LOL, that's rich!

I love taxes like that since they are bigley regressive and I'm sick of paying what liberals deem as my 'fair share'. So you dumb liberals wanna pile on more vice taxes and sales taxes? Go ahead, please. It doesn't affect me much and all your goofy social programs get funded by the people that use 'em.

Diet is taxed too. and you are taxed more for a lot of this because the distributors are adding the tax to the sales price. So in the case of the twelve pack of Dr Pepper, there is also the 8% sales tax into that which is an additional 17 cents.

Philly is deep blue, ultra liberal with a heavy black population - unfortunately doomed to libtarrrrdism forever.

My sense is that they'd like to get it banned from eligible items on SNAP, but that would take a change of "food items" under a definition on the federal level. So they go this route instead, making the honest working folks angry enough to force the change.