what a terrible move
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*not saying Lipton is great for you or anything but not really going to lead to being fat from what I can tell, seems silly to stick extra tax on it for "heath" reasons.
There are sugars in alcoholic beverages as well. Tax it up! Waht about restaurants with their free refills.... that could get nasty.
Even beer is cheaper after this tax lol. Philly already taxed cigarettes so much that they are over $10 a pack and they actually lost millions per year because everyone just bought them outside the city where they are $3 less per pack.
PA really needs to pass a law that cities cannot institute their own taxes willy nilly and must abide by state taxes, and if they do allow municipalities/cities to institute their own "sin" taxes, then the proceeds should go to offset some kind of damage that the product being taxed causes, not just forked over to failing inner city schools that are already spending more money per kid annually than any other nation and still do and always will suck until they start disciplining the students, fining/jailing parents for being shitty parents, and rewarding the good students
It is, the moment it starts to affect others.
Obese people are now one of the, if not the biggest cost on the US health care system, aren't they? They cost other people's money. A lot. Which could be used to cure people who aren'T sick because they lack self-restraint and because the average US meal is 50% sugar and fat.
Also, they tend to pass on their unhealthy eating habits to their offspring, which leads to them being a) bullied and b) becoming a bother for society later.
There is nothing wrong with the occasional soda, same as with cake, fatty burgers and so on. But at a certain point, it starts to be threatening to society. It is of little use to t he US that you have a growing populace with an increasing workforce if more and more of them start to become incapacitated.
Sorry for the harsh words, but quiet frankly, every initiative by your gouvernment that can start you (as in the american people) onto a healthier lifestyle is a godsent.
ya but not seeing it as something really that's going to make you fat, not really seeing the reason to stick the extra tax on things like this seems pointless. (and everything made today has something dubious in it, you'd be hard press to avoid it)
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umm don't most of them die at a younger age of a quick heart attack and not live to be 90+ and keep taxing the system?
*solves the Social security issue too if they kick off sooner...
No it didnt. It just created a black market. People either go to another nearby city/state where they are cheaper and buy a bunch to bring home or they buy them on the street corner from someone else who did. Or you buy them online from a retailer where you can avoid paying the taxes. People arent going to buy a carton of Newports for $129.99 a carton (like they are in Chicago and Philadelphia) when they can get one for $29.99 at www.dutyfreedepot.com The net effect this has is cities who institute these asinine taxes often take in less money than they did when the tax was lower and surrounding municipalities benefit greatly from the increased business
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Who in the hell do you think you are to tell people that they dont have the right to be obese if they want to?
Pretty sure once the dust all clears, there wont be anymore free refills in Philly. Because the tax is initially applied at the distribution level, any restaurant giving free refills would be paying the tax on the "free" soda they give you. The tax is on each ounce of drink, not the cost of the drink
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Actually I dont believe any drink has tar in it
No it doesn´t. Soda, especially fountain soda is a minimal part of a restaurant, or your bussiness model is already a complete failure.
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I am the guy paying high taxes in a society with universal healthcare. Who the hell are you? You really have a toddlers understanding of most subjects and see things in a very simplistic light.
I guess I will just wait for you to post a link that completely self-owns you and makes you look like a giant fool, like in the plastic bag thread you ran away from.
The government wasted its budget then sat around thinking up ways to drum a new tax to increase revenue. Probably never crossed their minds to reduce the budget or decrease their own salaries.
People are kidding themselves if they think this was done to reduce health care costs.
People working 2 jobs in the US (at least one part-time) - 7.8 Million (Roughly 4.9% of the workforce)
People working 2 full-time jobs in the US - 360,000 (0.2% of the workforce)
Average time worked weekly by the US Workforce - 34.5 hours