People shocked in Seattle USA: Coca Cola price rises dramatically

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source: Maaseuduntulevaisuus -magazine

Seattle enforces a "taxation based on harm the substance causes" on coca cola because it has been at the center of health problems for many Americans. People are shocked to see this as they have been accustomed to the cheapness of cola. This came to be enforced just recently, 1.1.2018.

There was many pictures in social media where people were showing coca cola prices to others and shaking their heads in disabelief.

For example there was a picture where a package with multiple drink cans in it which price was 15.99 dollars, the price contained 10 dollars of taxes based on the harm tax.

Seattle believes people will still buy cola and thus the city can collect 15 million dollars on tax income. Seattle claims money will also be used to educate people to eat vegetables and fresh fruit.

Some convenience stores are not happy, they are not getting money now when the coca cola is left on the shelves as people dont buy it.

US Federal government demanded by the end of the year 2017 that all products sold in USA must inform exactly how many grams of sugar it contains. Coca cola has an incredibly high amount.

OMG GOMMUNISM

>For example there was a picture where a package with multiple drink cans in it which price was 15.99 dollars, the price contained 10 dollars of taxes based on the harm tax.
Fuck that's absolutely based.
I would totally support that idea here.

Sweetened drinks are fucking poison.

Call me a socialist, but harm tax is a pretty cool idea Tbh

but there is a lot more things than just sugar that would need some harm taxes

I don't like that it's basically treating people as retarded children, but it has proven to work. Mexico issued a similar tax on sugary processed drinks and used the proceeds to assist small farms and natural products and it worked in decreasing obesity.

>I don't like that it's basically treating people as retarded children
Jimbo, I...

FUCKING GOMMUNIST GOGA GOLA YOU CANT DO THIS

oh, the horror

HEYA
KILL DA COCA-COLA

lol

>10 dolaridoos asspull tax because the government doesn't want you, a free citizen, to consume an specific product
How does it feel being the government's bitch, americucks?

>10 didgeridong taxi because the gubmint dont wan me
yea...

If I ever live in Seattle I'll let you know.

Fatties BTFO

I'm glad Costco is telling people exactly why the price hiked, will help get the public against this retardation.

>seattle

they deserve anything bad that comes to them.

I would understand this if they had "free" healthcare, but they dont? Also seems pretty pointless to just tax coca cola.

We have sweet tax here so fatsos would buy less shit but i kinda understand it because its a problem to national health and burden on the taxpayers "free" healtcare shit.

But fuck having taxes, roads and buildings and shieet you know wha am sayin?

>this item is also available at our Tukwila and Shoreline locations without City of Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax.
based costco

Black people

I really like that mutt, may I save it?

>the sweetened beverage tax which applies to sweetened beverages shall not apply to unsweetened tea
Glad that was clarified

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll find a way to cope

20% freedom tax and yes.

they don't call it the worst coast for nothing

>but it has proven to work
Except in Philadelphia, where it caused layoffs and didn't raise the money they thought it would, or Chicago, where it was repealed after a few months.

*claps in spanish*

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at last the day of the grill has arrived, death to all burgers

Instead of telling Americans what that can or cannot drink, maybe ban junk food from foodstamps since a large majority of citizens that buy this garbage to an unhealthy extent tend to be on benefits.
I've seen morbidly obese people in electric carts literally only buy soda, chips, and microwave meals, and more often than not, they're on foodstamps.

No. People do need to be told what and what not to drink. Junk food factories need to be shut down and the demographic of people subsisting in that sector of the economy needs to either starve or find other work, Chain restaurants, walmarts, and other leech buisnesses need to literally be shut down and illegalized, its a literal cancer on the environment shuttling junk food in diesel trucks across the country so some poor sucker can get cancer in 20 years.

Its not going to hurt muh growth or muh economy, people are already greedy as fuck as it is, theyll find some way to abuse the new system

Fuggin gommies DDDDD:

Wad about da gost of goga gola zero? :D

what about medicine industry which has pushed ADHD medicines on everyone, especially children, yet ADHD isnt even real thing?

its good. now fat fucks will actually start to pay their fair share into the healthcare system

how many muriggans actually are obese?

38% can you believe it? 73% are overweight too, a crazy country

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>Americans actually employing a decent policy
I'm baffled

You're just going to push people to sell their foodstamps for cash more than you already do.

we have the South to thank for this.

wtf whole Anglosphere is fat fucks

bravo colorado

>be America
>give tax money to corn planters to make HFCS for Coca-cola
>tax consumers for drinking Coca-cola because it has HFCS in it
>give tax money to corn planters to make HFCS for Coca-cola
>repeat
Dog bless :DDDD

These are what they said the money from this tax will go towards.
>$10 million for the Education Action Plan, a series of programs aimed at eliminating the opportunity gap between white students and African American/Black and other students of color.
>$5.7 million will fund increased support for children from birth-to-five years old and their caregivers, such as prenatal care
>$3.2 million will fund expanded food access including the Fresh Bucks program, which provides low-income households vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables at local farmers markets

*BUURRRP*
one coal ah ebola pls

Won't people just go for Coke Zero, or is that also taxed?

But Coke Zero won't give them the sugar high they crave

>colorado
holy fuck is it the weed?

Don't a lot of your taxes end up to treat mega obese blacks for diabetes.

If black weren't so fat think about how much money you'd save.

it just might be, even tho it wasnt recreationally legal in 2008

>>$3.2 million will fund expanded food access including the Fresh Bucks program, which provides low-income households vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables at local farmers markets
Well that's something at least
My mother's friend lived in Cali with her husband for ~5 years and the prices on produce were fucking mindboggling compared to what she was used to back in Poland.
For the amount some stores charged for a single shitty bellpepper you could get a 15kg bag of them in Poland.
And yes Poland is poor and has cheap food. But then again it seems completely conterintuitive that fresh produce is expensive in the US when the United States is home to one of the biggest plains of the most fertile earth you can find on this planet comparable only to the chernozem belt in Ukraine and western Russia (which centuries ago made the Polish Commonwealth the breadbasket of Europe)

The produce we get in grocery stores here does not come from usa tho, it comes from mexico and south america generally

Again, something I do not understand considering that the amount of arable land in the US is so great. You get tons of sunlight more than Poland. And GMO crops are not illegal in the US which would be a great opportunity for very high efficiency farming. We get none of these yet we still export 80% of the total food we make AND it's cheap.

Im by no means saying that imported food is bad - we import a lot of food too, especially in the winter season a lot of fresh produce like tomatoes comes from warmer parts of the Union like Spain.
US has literally everything it needs to be farming and food export powerhouse but you guys grow >muh corn instead.

Hell look at Netherlands for a better example.
Tiny country of only 17 million people. Speck of shit on the map compared to USA. Yet Dutch food exports are almost 70% of American food exports.