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I would fight that with every breath I have. It's damn hard enough to find healthy low-calorie foods at reasonable prices. Most low-calorie versions of brands often cost more, and it's not right. I have been drinking Diet Coke for years, and I'll be damned if I will pay more for it than the non-diet version.
Hell yeah! You have every right to kill yourself faster if you want too!
I would be fine with it of the money went towards paying for research for diabetes or some other health care issue. The fact that it's just being used to fund regular city stuff, is a joke. It's not about health. It's a cash grab.
It's not a money grab. It is earmarked for universal pre-K, a top priority of the new mayor's campaign. He won handily, taking 85% of the vote. It seems non-Philadelphians aren't interested in reading beyond the headline.
I would be fine with it of the money went towards paying for research for diabetes or some other health care issue. The fact that it's just being used to fund regular city stuff, is a joke. It's not about health. It's a cash grab.
To many of us Philadelphians, having universal kindergarten and upgrades to our extensive rec centers, most of which need it, is hardly a joke and is about the health of our community. Although from where you sit it doesn't look that way.
To many of us Philadelphians, having universal kindergarten and upgrades to our extensive rec centers, most of which need it, is hardly a joke and is about the health of our community. Although from where you sit it doesn't look that way.
And as drink sales slow watch for bonds to be demanded. Heck, even if drink sales stay at current levels you watch and see the demands start for more $$$ to support the new programs that never,ever have enough funding.
Thankfully I'll never set foot in Philly ever again so I'll not pay a cent.
If you accept the idea that the government should or can tax cigarettes to discourage smoking, you ought to be okay with this because sugary soda is really unhealthy.
Most soda doesn't have any sugar in it. It has high fructose corn syrup.
It says they're taxing diet soda too. The major complaint I've heard about diet soda is that people think they're being good drinking it, so they think they can get away with eating more junk food.
So, I think in order for it to be fair, they should put a surtax on all diet foods and drinks. If someone feels virtuous drinking diet soda, then they will feel just as virtuous choosing to drink water or unsweetened tea or coffee. So tax them all. Otherwise, this is just ridiculous.
That's a bit hostile of an attititude, isn't it? Do you harbor a special resentment towards people who count calories or try to live a little healthier than when they were kids?
The tax is a tax on soda. Period. Don't know why the need for a tirade on people who try to count calories, since that has nothing to do wit the tax on soda.
I support it, good idea. I support the idea of taxing things you want to discourage such as sugar water, cigarettes, gasoline, pot and heroin.
Yes, and red meat, eggs, non-organic chicken, margarine, butter, corn syrup (no more pecan pie), pie and cake while we are at it, canola oil, farm raised salmon, and what else is currently declared to be "not good for you to eat"? Oh yes, don't forget coffee.
It's not the government's job to tell me what I can and can not eat. The "things that are bad for you" list changes every year and what was bad this year might be good next year.
Didn't the American revolution start over a tax on tea?
The government has no business legislating or dis-incentivizing things like drinking soda. So what if someone wants to drink soda. That should be their choice, and they should have to pay what the market decides the price should be, not said price jacked up by some artificial tax. Not to mention it's a shameless cash grab.
Coming from someone who really doesn't drink that much soda I agree. Now for years I have known people who for one reason or another did gave up soda OK good for them. Now what does get me about those who scream and brag about giving up the pop is that so many of them do other things that aren't exactly healthy either. Nothing like having someone blowing cigar smoke in my face and guzzling down those Red Bull energy drinks or 5 Hour energy shots as if they were water while at the same time yell at me because that Diet Coke in my hand is so unhealthy. Then there was that guy from Denver on Facebook last year who ripped me a new one because he had seen a pic online of my office and on the desk was a Dr. Pepper. Telling me that such stuff is poison and that he didn't want to pay for my health insurance. OK he has the right to say that but this is the very same guy on Facebook who would brag about how every weekend he would hit the bars to get drunk ( lots of selfies of him being smashed on Facebook ) oh if he isn't hitting the bars he would brag about attending "naked hot tub parties" where he would smoke a lot of pot and have unprotected sex with other men even though he is HIV+. When I told him that I shouldn't have to pay for his and his sex partner's HIV and his alcoholism..well lets just say we are no longer friends on Facebook.
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