TODAY'S RANT:
PHILADELPHIA PASSES 1.5 cent tax per ounce tax on sugary and diet drinks.
1. Ridiculous! Another example of 'political correctness' run amok.
2. The way to effect change in diet is NOT to tax goods but to educate the people who need to change behavior.
3. No tax has ever affected the way people eat or what they eat.
4. The Food Police will keep trying stupid things like this to get you to eat no meat, ice cream, candy, etc. unless we stop it!
The tax would impose more than a dollar increase in the price of a 32 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola! What a windfall for the city treasury! But all this tax will do is hurt the bottom line of grocers and markets. It won't stop the consumption of sodas or carbonated drinks. The buyers will simply start shopping in Camden or the suburbs instead of in Philadelphia.
Vote the morons out!