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re: Boulder passes nations steepest sugary beverage tax - Agree or disagree?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:34 pm to HippieTiger
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:34 pm to HippieTiger
more laws to save people from themselves
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Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:35 pm to HippieTiger
Liberals love them some taxes.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:43 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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voted for the tax
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HippieTiger
Checks out.
Hippies don't vote for taxes, they are anti authority. He's a poser.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:47 pm to Alt26
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It's sad that so many don't understand the stupidity of this statement.
"Don't worry. The cost of your coke isn't going to go up. Just the cost to those providing the coke to you."
We've seen the response in Philly
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Signs went up in stores and on vending machines telling customers price hikes were part of the beverage tax, receipts were programmed to charge the tax as a separate line item, it was applied to items that weren’t taxed and retailers blamed the complex process of passing the tax along.
All of it, said Mayor Kenney, is “wrong” and “misleading.”
“This is what they do. They spent 10 1/2 Million dollars in an advertising campaign to beat the tax, they lost,” he said. “They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and they lost. And they’ll continue to lose because their legal case is not sound and their public case is not sound.”
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“They’re gouging their own customers.”
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:52 pm to ell_13
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Using a tax to artificially raise market prices and manipulate consumer habits should be illegal.
Agreed, but isn't it necessary now?
As long as we:
1. Don't stigmatize and shame poor decision making
2. Pay taxes for healthcare for others who don't pay, and pay into insurance pools that are used by bad decision makers
3. Allow government assistance to support bad choices
It's tough to say this isn't something that makes SOME sense. Government begets more government of course.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:53 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Hippies don't vote for taxes, they are anti authority. He's a poser.
Most not have read that chapter in my hippies for dummies handbook
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:54 pm to HippieTiger
you are now the man
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:55 pm to HippieTiger
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Hippies don't vote for taxes, they are anti authority. He's a poser.
Most not have read that chapter in my hippies for dummies handbook
Evidently.
Hipster =\= hippie. Hippies were good people who valued freedom
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:56 pm to HippieTiger
I'm not a fan of governments influencing the market like that.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 1:57 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Hippies were good people who valued freedom
Classic liberals are nothing like today's version.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 2:01 pm to DonChowder
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Classic liberals are nothing like today's version.
The Marxists hijacked the word liberal which they most certainly are not. Libertarians are liberals
Posted on 8/1/17 at 2:15 pm to BigPerm30
Cut health care out for self induced disease. Make the patient pay out of pocket. Health care problems solved.
Never happen in this lifetime though.
Never happen in this lifetime though.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 2:22 pm to HippieTiger
Let's tax the air we breathe also! 
Posted on 8/1/17 at 2:32 pm to HippieTiger
I love the article title - "What does that mean?"
It means that people will buy their soft drinks outside of the City.
It means that people will buy their soft drinks outside of the City.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 2:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
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you are now the man
Isn't it funny? Kids thinking they're all free spirit, stick it to the man, by being exactly what their predecessors hated.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 2:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
Wait, so did people think the distributors and/or retailers were going to absorb the tax and just sell the products at the same price, which could often be at a loss?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 2:47 pm to HippieTiger
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54 percent voting in favor, 46 percent opposed.
I don't know exactly how votes like this work, but I think a vote like this should have to have more than a simple majority.
That's bullshite to basically allow 54% of the population to tax 46% of the population.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 3:02 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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So that's the line, but the tax still applies to zero calorie and sugar free drinks.
See, that's the bullshite part. Ok, sugar is bad and must be taxed. But a sugar-free diet soda gets taxed while a 20 ounce mocha frappachino with 85g of sugar doesn't. How frick dumb are these city councils?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 3:08 pm to CoachChappy
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Let them smoke dope but tax their Mountain Dew
The Dew kills more people than dope does.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 3:08 pm to HippieTiger
First they came for my Coke and Powerade and I said nothing
Then they came for my donuts and frosted mini-wheats and I still said nothing
Then they came for my bread and pasta and I said nothing
Finally I realized I had lost 120 lbs. and was no longer diabetic.
Then they came for my donuts and frosted mini-wheats and I still said nothing
Then they came for my bread and pasta and I said nothing
Finally I realized I had lost 120 lbs. and was no longer diabetic.
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