How bad is it?
Pricing labels at a Seattle Costco have garnered much attention because they show just how much soda and other sugary drinks now cost Seattle residents. A CBS News manager tweeted pictures showing the price increase of two drinks.
In the first case, the price of a case of Dr. Pepper (36 cans) nearly doubled. According to the picture, Costco sells the soda for $9.99. But with an added tax of $7.56, the soda now costs customers $17.55. In the second case, Costco sells a case of Gatorade for $15.99. But the tax adds $10.34 to the price, which brings the total cost to $26.33.
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good. great!
ReplyDeletemake America thin again!
Amen! Too many fatties. Have you been to OC lately
DeletePeople will just get their sodas, etc. from outside the city limits, just like New York and cigarettes.
ReplyDeleteWill we live long enough to see the lib tax the air we breathe? Don't laugh!
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what retailers need to do,show people how much their politicians are screwing them.
ReplyDeleteand that's on the wholesale level. What does this look like at retail? Americans can stand to not drink that crap anyway.
ReplyDelete10:01 and soon we will be reading about people being arrested for smuggling sodas across state lines and the one day will come when some poor soul is shot and killed by the police for smuggling soda.
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ReplyDeletePhilly did this nonsense first; worked out like OweMalley's Millionaire Tax. Who coulda seen that coming?
Actually a very regressive tax on lower income people.
Hey, it's still cheaper than the cost of health problems in the future. Call this paying for your diabetes and obesity related health problems up front.
ReplyDeleteHopefully people will now consider making better life choices and stop drinking that poison.
Cigarettes are available much as you want
DeleteMarijuana legal as much as you want
Alcohol Legal much as you want
Pepsi however your going to pay for that. Lol.
1218 cigarettes are highly taxed, as is alcohol, and pot is illegal. You dont read much do you
Delete11:44...You BELIEVE what you just said???
ReplyDeleteThat POLITICIANS are going to invest that tax money in HEALTHCARE???
They are going to steal it and use it for their latest pet project.
YOU also apparently believe that you NEED someone to run your life (and everyone else's, too) and make sure you make all the right decisions (for your own good).
"Hopefully, people can now consider making better life choices....."
Will you please write down those "choices" you approve of so we can all start benefitting from your perfection?
A "better choice" might be marching these Nazi's out of their office at gunpoint and hanging them from the first lamp post.
After THAT, start with the cheerleaders of them.
The world might not get any thinner, but it would be a MUCH better place to live.
Keep cheering.
Montgomery County has been doing this for many many years. An additional country sales tax on soda's, booze, cigs and gas. The area grocery stores (giant, food lion, harris teeter, etc) have had to create a completely different (additional) sales paper just for Montgomery County customers.
ReplyDeleteI understand Montgomery County doing this years ago to fix a budget impasse but over the last 30 years? What is it paying now? I hope no one on the county board THINKS anyone outside of Monkey County would shop their stores, cuz it aint happening. Especially for booze. Its almost as if you get punished for living in Montgomery County!
This just doesn't make "cents"!!!
It is so easy to take the money by a tax once they have it its like heroin to them they couldn't live without it.
DeletePsst! Hey, mac, yeah,you. Come here. Got some cheap soda . See Any cops around?
ReplyDeleteSoda Stream. Smuggle syrup through the mail!
ReplyDeleteYea you whales wouldnt have money for anything else!
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