How to take a ridiculous position on taxes!

Step #1: Label the enemy "big X"
Step #2: Fulminate
Step #3: ???
Step #4: Profit!

I love this leftist rag that's for a sales tax that hurts the poorest people in WA.

Y'all stopped being relevant so long ago.

@2 - nothing’s forcing poor people to buy sugar-water.

It's the same as when the chemical companies poured money into Seattle and defeated our proposed plastic-bag ban. Nobody needs their product and they know it. A lot of money to delay the inevitable.

I hope our local PR experts rake in the cash and trickle it down nicely to restaurants &c. Perhaps buying some Cube Libres while they're at it. :-)

All that big mountain of Ca$h they've taken from their loyal drinker/followers -- they have tens of millions lying around they can just toss over to Big Media so's they can buy our Votes -- doesn't that seem a little ridiculous?

That it's US vs the Multinational MegaCorps?
(poor- and middle-class Enablers need to take a little Credit here, too)
Who here wants more Corporate Rule?

They're proving they can easily Afford
to change our Votes.

What a Stupid Way to operate one's own Country.
WE could do Better.

First they came for your soda then they came for your pizza.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/11/pizzas-must-shrink-lose-toppings-government-anti-obesity-plan/

The soda tax is the exact sort of nanny-state bullshit that makes me embarrased to be a liberal.

I’m voting yes because the soda tax code was poorly written and was designed to allow the stores to pass the tax onto the consumer. However, some stores are not counting this as a separate tax and rolling the cost into the price. This means that we’re paying sales taxes upon the new tax, increasing the size of the tax beyond the scope of the bill. We should not be paying taxes on taxes.

@8 -- "... unless your into regressive Taxation."

I am TOTALLY into taxing the Regressives.
And the Repressives.
And the perveyors of cornsyrup as food.
(not sure about the grammatically-challenged,
being trapped amongst them poor basterds....)

Tax it likeTobacco*
and let it pay for its Misery
through better Healthcare.

*call it a Sin Tax -- it'll make
your (forbidden!) Soda taste even sweeter!

@3 NoSpin: Agreed. And nothing is forcing anyone to watch Fox TV, either. Meanwhile, big corporations are out to poison the water, and pollute the air we breathe, too.

@2 - No, but for a kiddies’ birthday party it’s still pricy, or you could do kool-aid.

Sorry, but coconut water and rice cakes don’t go over well with the eight and younger crowd.

16 refers to 3

The cost of making soda is a tiny fraction of the sale price. It’s not heavily regulated, like alcohol is. It provides no nutrients. Nobody ever needs it. So, the politicians in Seattle simply took part of the revenue stream from the soda companies, because they could. Anyone who doesn’t like it can drink something else, which is probably more healthy anyway.

It’s actually a wonder this did not happen a lot sooner.

The only real question on the ballot is, “do you want your money going to even higher profits for some faraway beverage giant, or to your local government for stuff you want?”

Were I a betting man, my money would be on the latter.

@18 That isn’t what happened.

If you look at the prices at Safeway, they directly add the price of the tax to the price of the soda. So, Diet soda is cheaper than sugared soda.

The soda giants are making the same profit. The taxation is just increasing the price. If the goal was to cut into the soda giant profits, the tax code is poorly written and provides an out for drinking Diet Soda.

@19, 20: You’re right. My statement is true only if consumption declines. If it does not, the City simply adds a new revenue stream. Anyone who doesn’t like it can drink something else. For the city and non-soda-drinking taxpayers, there’s no downside, which is why beverage giants are funding this Initiative.

“That's what Mike O'Brien said!”

Did you assume it wasn’t true, then? :-)

If I have to pay 47% tax on weed you soda drinkers need to pay similar. Look for my "47 Percent for Soda: It's Only Fair" campaign next year. If it doesn't show up in one of the major food groups - 47% tax.