- Would be nice. But really, she’s only expecting $28 million from your sugar addiction.
The governor’s tax plan is out, and it’s aiming to help dig our state out of a $2.8 billion hole by charging you extra for certain items.
Like, oh, Bubblicious, Nestle Crunch, Evian, Lucky Strikes, and the hazardous petroleum you’re buying for that oil refinery you’re running.
Let’s see where the Slog mob is likely to make its biggest contribution to the Washington State budget deficit.
If Gregoire gets her way, which tax are you going to be paying most often?
I buy hazardous substances regularly. FARTSLOL
Oh no, Megan!
Goddamn the vending machine at work and its siren call of terrible sugar-delivery devices.
I buy bottled water once in a while, then save the bottles and refill them over and over. I hate that most people just toss them.
Well, I never buy any of the others, ever, so I guess I’ll pay the Hazardous Substances tax most. Now I just have to find some hazardous substances to buy.
If we are gonna tax soda and bottled water, why not tax tea and coffee too?
@6 – cause last time we tried that, the citizens almost revolted.
#6 Because coffee and tea are consumed by people with more money.
Helloooo!! Get with the program?
It’s weird seeing it laid out like that. I have a motor boat so I put hazardous substances, but I don’t buy any of that crap. Yay me!
Wait, why is the tax on bottled water MORE than the tax on soda?
Sin taxes like this don’t seem to make much sense. It makes sense if the state is trying to encourage people to stop smoking, scarfing down candy bars, drinking Coke or buying methyl ethyl keytone by the gallon. But if the goal is to generate a consistent, reliable source of state revenue, what sense does it do to tax things so that people do less of them?
@10, maybe because soda doesn’t come out of your faucet.
@12: YOUR faucet, maybe.
Seriously, soda is awful for people and should be considered just as much a luxury as bottled water, and taxed equally.
Count me as not a fan of sin taxes. I think it’s a terrible way to approach general funds.
I’d grant a difference if generated taxes go directly to offsetting social problems created by a given product, but that’s not the case here.
I’m going to get killed on soda tax.
I’m not surprised that that was the best she could come up with. Hope she didn’t stay up too late!
She got rid of a lot of tax exemptions, but the media doesn’t seem to be playing that up, mostly because virtually everyone is happy she did that.