Philadelphia soda tax

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Most diet drinks are bad for you as well so it makes complete sense. Aspartame is fukked up just like Sugar.
no they arent. quit the hippie shyt.


and most diet drinks use sucralose, not aspartame
 

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people actually supporting this obvious money grabbing shyt as if it has anything to do with kids?
yeah im sure this will go towards tidying up some of those philly schools and ghettos like everything else america collects money for :troll:
smokers and drinkers haven't been stopped by taxing and people think this will stop people from drinking soda. exactly how naive and incompetent are americans to just vote for more random taxes without accurate and responsible numbers of where their current ones are going?
 

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Those who are against this... You do realize that the companies that make most of the soda lobbied a few decades ago to get their drinks into public schools with small children, where they addict them with sugar? How are they making a smart choice when the vending machines are in every hallway? Hyper tension and heart disease from poor diet is the number one killer in the AA community, this hopefully will make people choose the right drinks.
 

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people actually supporting this obvious money grabbing shyt as if it has anything to do with kids?
yeah im sure this will go towards tidying up some of those philly schools and ghettos like everything else america collects money for :troll:
smokers and drinkers haven't been stopped by taxing and people think this will stop people from drinking soda. exactly how naive and incompetent are americans to just vote for more random taxes without accurate and responsible numbers of where their current ones are going?
Well, the supports of this tax angled it as a revenue-increasing tax instead of a health concern tax in order to get it to pass. The health angle didn't work in NYC.




I might as well hang out around south Philly, buy a bunch of soda from a warehouse club, and then sell some untaxed soda on the DL on the street corners right near the elementary schools. I'll probably make a cool $10 of profit after cutting out cost of soda and gasoline costs for 8 hours of dealing.
 

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People were warned that the sin taxes on tobacco would seep into other areas and no one listened.

If they took a poll sin taxes wouldn't do so hot this part go round.

People have to realize they push shyt like this on unpopular scapegoats for a reason.
 

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...says the person with Canadadry as a user name...
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