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.
Connor Wood
OMG GOMMUNISM
Caleb Walker
>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.
Liam Perez
Call me a socialist, but harm tax is a pretty cool idea Tbh
Jason Bailey
but there is a lot more things than just sugar that would need some harm taxes
Isaiah Clark
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.
Joshua Rivera
>I don't like that it's basically treating people as retarded children Jimbo, I...
Ryder Thompson
FUCKING GOMMUNIST GOGA GOLA YOU CANT DO THIS
Ryan Rogers
oh, the horror
Jaxson Clark
HEYA KILL DA COCA-COLA
Josiah White
lol
Jack Gray
>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?
Daniel Allen
>10 didgeridong taxi because the gubmint dont wan me yea...
Jeremiah Ross
If I ever live in Seattle I'll let you know.
Logan Ward
Fatties BTFO
Hudson Taylor
I'm glad Costco is telling people exactly why the price hiked, will help get the public against this retardation.
Cameron Garcia
>seattle
they deserve anything bad that comes to them.
Dylan Cruz
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?
Caleb Garcia
>this item is also available at our Tukwila and Shoreline locations without City of Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax. based costco
Camden Garcia
Black people
Noah Cooper
I really like that mutt, may I save it?
Grayson Brooks
>the sweetened beverage tax which applies to sweetened beverages shall not apply to unsweetened tea Glad that was clarified
Dylan Gonzalez
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll find a way to cope
Gabriel White
20% freedom tax and yes.
Isaac Stewart
they don't call it the worst coast for nothing
Justin Torres
>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.
Dylan Gomez
*claps in spanish*
Isaac Jackson
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Joseph Hughes
at last the day of the grill has arrived, death to all burgers
Lucas Russell
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.
Adam Diaz
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
Joshua Richardson
Fuggin gommies DDDDD:
Wad about da gost of goga gola zero? :D
Nathaniel Bennett
what about medicine industry which has pushed ADHD medicines on everyone, especially children, yet ADHD isnt even real thing?
Samuel Davis
its good. now fat fucks will actually start to pay their fair share into the healthcare system
Kevin Baker
how many muriggans actually are obese?
William Sullivan
38% can you believe it? 73% are overweight too, a crazy country
Jason Gray
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Noah Peterson
>Americans actually employing a decent policy I'm baffled
Lincoln Butler
You're just going to push people to sell their foodstamps for cash more than you already do.
Christian Price
we have the South to thank for this.
Leo Rivera
wtf whole Anglosphere is fat fucks
Jacob Thompson
bravo colorado
Nolan Gray
>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
Parker Anderson
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
Oliver Barnes
*BUURRRP* one coal ah ebola pls
Charles Nelson
Won't people just go for Coke Zero, or is that also taxed?
Samuel Perry
But Coke Zero won't give them the sugar high they crave
Juan Wood
>colorado holy fuck is it the weed?
Camden Phillips
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.
Jonathan Wood
it just might be, even tho it wasnt recreationally legal in 2008
Josiah Martinez
>>$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)
Grayson Phillips
The produce we get in grocery stores here does not come from usa tho, it comes from mexico and south america generally
Carter Clark
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.
Benjamin Walker
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.