How's the sugary drink tax working out? (McDonald: car insurance, lawyers)

[HappyRider]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

I wouldn't call seven weeks "several months."

It's long enough for distributors and retailers to feel an effect but not long enough to say whether trendlines are permanent or whether curves might bend further in one direction or the other.

Ok, but where do you go to get the numbers you can trust or are we at the mercy of the City Hall?

[2002 Subaru]

I actually bought soda in Philadelphia yesterday - two 20 ounce bottles of Seagram's ginger ale for $1.50 each. (The wife is under the weather)
The proprieter said "I won't charge you tax." I replied "Thank you. I wouldn't buy them if you did."

[Pine to Vine]

Originally Posted by 2002 Subaru

I actually bought soda in Philadelphia yesterday - two 20 ounce bottles of Seagram's ginger ale for $1.50 each. (The wife is under the weather)
The proprieter said "I won't charge you tax." I replied "Thank you. I wouldn't buy them if you did."

You're aware the tax has already been paid by your store's distributor, right?

Why is it that these non-city dwellers who don't even know how the tax works are the ones most messsed up over this matter?

[BPP1999]

Originally Posted by Pine to Vine

You're aware the tax has already been paid by your store's distributor, right?

Why is it that these non-city dwellers who don't even know how the tax works are the ones most messsed up over this matter?

More importantly, does the proprietor know this? Or, if the soda was "smuggled in" for lack of a better term, he needs to be careful who he brags about not charging tax to.

It's funny that protestors are considered in some circles as anti-American but apparently it's ok to not pay taxes.

[2002 Subaru]

Originally Posted by Pine to Vine

You're aware the tax has already been paid by your store's distributor, right?

Why is it that these non-city dwellers who don't even know how the tax works are the ones most messsed up over this matter?

Well, I'm glad they payed it and I didn't. Either way, the $1.50 worked for me.


Are you saying I don't live in the city? I've been here longer than you and know the city better than you.
What is it with these transplants who think they know the entire city, but haven't even stepped foot in the vast majority of the neighborhoods? There's more to Philadelphia than 13th and Locust and Pine to Vine.

[2002 Subaru]

Originally Posted by BPP1999

It's funny that protestors are considered in some circles as anti-American but apparently it's ok to not pay taxes.

Personally, I don't think the current crop of protesters are 'anti-American.' But I do think they're uneducated, unintelligent, hate-filled, intolerant imbeciles.

[Pine to Vine]

Originally Posted by 2002 Subaru

Well, I'm glad they payed it and I didn't. Either way, the $1.50 worked for me.

Stop lying. Neither were your drink taxes waived by the guy manning the cash register nor did the store owner pay taxes on the drink you purchased. It doesn't work that way.

Originally Posted by 2002 Subaru

Are you saying I don't live in the city? I've been here longer than you and know the city better than you.
What is it with these transplants who think they know the entire city, but haven't even stepped foot in the vast majority of the neighborhoods? There's more to Philadelphia than 13th and Locust and Pine to Vine.

While I haven't been everywhere, I've ventured from Olney to Kingsessing and Cobbs Creek and from Chestnut Hill to Oregon as well as points in between. In addition, I've volunteered my services at a facility in Wynnefield once each week for the past 6 years. Though not everywhere yet, I've had the chance to see a pretty good slice of town.

Besides, just because you've lived in the city longer than me doesn't mean that you know more about it. You certainly don't know about this drink tax, so why would I believe you know more about other aspects. In fact, you were called upon to provide facts to back up your claimed "knowledge and information" on the transgendered community in another thread, but let that opportunity lapse:

Originally Posted by 2002 Subaru

Ignorance? Oh, I have the knowledge and information regarding this topic.Try again.

^^^^^

Originally Posted by AJNEOA

Please enlighten us.

Given you are wrong about the drink tax and duck questions on other claims, why would I conclude you know more about the city than me?

[BPP1999]

Originally Posted by 2002 Subaru

Personally, I don't think the current crop of protesters are 'anti-American.' But I do think they're uneducated, unintelligent, hate-filled, intolerant imbeciles.

You "think" this, but do you know any of them? You seem fairly hate-filled, BTW.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by BPP1999

It's funny that protestors are considered in some circles as anti-American but apparently it's ok to not pay taxes.

Um, this country was founded over a tax protest.

[HappyRider]

Back to te topic, how do we get the sales figures and tax revenues after the tax went into effect? Does someone have to go to court to get them?