IL: Good news everybody, the Cook Co. soda tax has gone into effect. Poor people rejoice your new tax

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - IL: Good news everybody, the Cook Co. soda tax has gone into effect. Poor people rejoice your new tax

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:06:45 PM EDT

LOL

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:12:58 PM EDT

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Lulz

Next year will be fun when they are short again.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:14:53 PM EDT

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What about the children?

Tards.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:15:16 PM EDT

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Be worthwhile just to drive out of the county and stockup

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:19:27 PM EDT

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At least the budget won't be a problem anymore.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:23:35 PM EDT

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Too bad Chicagoans aren't brave enough to to stage their own Boston Tea Party

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:24:42 PM EDT

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If you pay for the drinks with an EBT card the tax doesn't apply to you. Along with Chicago's plastic bottle and plastic bag tax.

Wouldn't want to piss off the democratic voting block.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:24:59 PM EDT

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I'll have a Coke.

That I bought outside of Cook County. Because buying outside of Cook County is not that hard.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:26:01 PM EDT

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Oh, thank God! Illinois is saved!

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:27:02 PM EDT

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How does this work? The guy who buys the soda mix pays $35 more due to the tax. Do the customers also may the tax as well after he mixes it and sells it?

I mean prolly but does anyone know?

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:34:40 PM EDT

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As I understand it the state will collect from the seller and the seller will recoup from the consumer. I read about the tax but it is very confusing. The goal is to reduce obesity due to sugary and artificially sweeted drinks.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:35:18 PM EDT

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Are sodas purchase with EBT subject to the tax?

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:35:38 PM EDT

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How does this work? The guy who buys the soda mix pays $35 more due to the tax. Do the customers also may the tax as well after he mixes it and sells it?

I mean prolly but does anyone know?

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It's IL, so probably

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:37:57 PM EDT

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As I understand it the state will collect from the seller and the seller will recoup from the consumer. I read about the tax but it is very confusing. The goal is to reduce obesity due to sugary and artificially sweeted drinks.

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Wanna bet?

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:41:13 PM EDT

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Wait... I thought this was a "Sugary Drink Tax"? The first bullet point defining what will be taxed says "Regular and diet sodas," DIET SODAS don't have Sugar in them that is the whole point of a DIET drink.

Just saying...

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:43:46 PM EDT

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lol....poor people aren't gonna pay this new tax. SNAP benefit purchases are exempt from taxes...

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:44:20 PM EDT

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Here's one for you.

Even if it is the person with the EBT is not paying (TAX)

It's all free shit until the money runs out and you have to get a job.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:44:40 PM EDT

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NOPE

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:45:43 PM EDT

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As I understand it the state will collect from the seller and the seller will recoup from the consumer. I read about the tax but it is very confusing. The goal is to reduce obesity due to sugary and artificially sweeted drinks.

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Nope. Not even close.

Posted: 8/2/2017 1:51:54 PM EDT

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As I understand it the state will collect from the seller and the seller will recoup from the consumer. I read about the tax but it is very confusing. The goal is to reduce obesity due to sugary and artificially sweeted drinks.

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Well they can't just come out and say give us all your money. They have to find ways of taking it 'for our benefit.'

Posted: 8/2/2017 2:19:25 PM EDT

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I'll have a Coke.

That I bought outside of Cook County. Because buying outside of Cook County is not that hard.

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And it'll probably taste better just knowing that Cook County DIDN'T get the tax.

Like that feeling I get when I buy gas and bullets outside of that lousy county.

Posted: 8/2/2017 2:20:54 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/2/2017 2:25:48 PM EDT

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The goal is to reduce obesity due to sugary and artificially sweeted drinks.

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Just like speeding tickets are to keep everyone safe.

Posted: 8/2/2017 2:36:15 PM EDT

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The cities doing shit like taxing diet sodas for "fairness" because wealthy white people drink them, or taxing sales from distributors at rates over 100% and then claiming that any increase in retail prices is "gouging"... is not doing the left any favors.

The generation after the millenials see right through this crap.

Posted: 8/2/2017 2:37:46 PM EDT

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Beetus tax?

Posted: 8/2/2017 2:38:23 PM EDT

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Chicago Sugar Party?

Posted: 8/2/2017 2:42:24 PM EDT

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Is Grape Drink included?

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:01:26 PM EDT

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That pretty much goes against every taxation theory and economic theory in modern times. The problem is that poor people are fat and diabetic primarily due to their consumption of sugary drinks purchased with EBT. Making them exempt from the tax levied to discourage the consumption of said beverages defeats the entire point of the tax.

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:05:14 PM EDT

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That pretty much goes against every taxation theory and economic theory in modern times. The problem is that poor people are fat and diabetic primarily due to their consumption of sugary drinks purchased with EBT. Making them exempt from the tax levied to discourage the consumption of said beverages defeats the entire point of the tax.

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NOPE

That pretty much goes against every taxation theory and economic theory in modern times. The problem is that poor people are fat and diabetic primarily due to their consumption of sugary drinks purchased with EBT. Making them exempt from the tax levied to discourage the consumption of said beverages defeats the entire point of the tax.

The point of the tax is to collect money for crooked politicians. Don't get confused and think this was for anything else.

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:10:30 PM EDT

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The tax is probably not charged on grape drank purchased with food stamps.

Edit: yep, food stamp purchases are exempt.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-soda-tax-food-stamps-exemption-0610-biz-20170609-story.html

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:11:48 PM EDT

[#30]

Are cops gonna pull over soda vans in da hood?

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:14:12 PM EDT

[#31]

Verily thine tax on the purple drank doth stank.

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:14:27 PM EDT

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Are cops gonna pull over soda vans in da hood?

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Posted: 8/2/2017 3:17:43 PM EDT

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...The goal is to reduce obesity due to sugary and artificially sweeted drinks.

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For anyone who believes this, I have a unicorn stud farm located on prime oceanfront property in Arizona that I can cut you an exceptional deal on.

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:17:44 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/2/2017 3:19:23 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/2/2017 3:20:39 PM EDT

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lol....poor people aren't gonna pay this new tax. SNAP benefit purchases are exempt from taxes...

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This is a plot to eliminate the untermenschen with the beetus!

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:22:04 PM EDT

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That pretty much goes against every taxation theory and economic theory in modern times. The problem is that poor people are fat and diabetic primarily due to their consumption of sugary drinks purchased with EBT. Making them exempt from the tax levied to discourage the consumption of said beverages defeats the entire point of the tax.

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These taxes are shadow reparations so the the privileged can pay for the bread and circuses for the "poor".

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:23:16 PM EDT

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How does this work? The guy who buys the soda mix pays $35 more due to the tax. Do the customers also may the tax as well after he mixes it and sells it?

I mean prolly but does anyone know?

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My large Coke had a $0.23 beverage surcharge added to it at McDonald's this morning. That's how it works.

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:42:40 PM EDT

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The point of the tax is to collect money for crooked politicians. Don't get confused and think this was for anything else.

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That right there, and when the fatty tax fails to bring in enough money, (make no mistake, it will fail to meet the stated amount) they will come up with another way to pry your wallet open a little wider.

Posted: 8/2/2017 3:45:31 PM EDT

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At least it's not another rich whyte people tax workaround. Summa that EBT gonna be flowing back to Uncle

Posted: 8/2/2017 4:02:48 PM EDT

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The tax is probably not charged on grape drank purchased with food stamps.

Edit: yep, food stamp purchases are exempt.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-soda-tax-food-stamps-exemption-0610-biz-20170609-story.html

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Why not just ban food stamp purchases instead of exempting them.

Posted: 8/2/2017 4:03:27 PM EDT

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Wood smash and marry!

Posted: 8/2/2017 4:36:21 PM EDT

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Tax sugary sodas!

What about those that don't have sugar?

Tax them anyway!

Posted: 8/2/2017 4:50:59 PM EDT

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IF it was for health reasons, EBT/food stamps would have never been allowed to purchase pop or other sugared drinks. Hell, it would have only been allowed to be used on staples and not a dime for fast food, prepackaged food, or any type of snacks or desserts.

Posted: 8/2/2017 4:52:05 PM EDT

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As I understand it the state will collect from the seller and the seller will recoup from the consumer. I read about the tax but it is very confusing. The goal is to reduce obesity due to sugary and artificially sweeted drinks.

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Of course we know that isn't the goal at all, it's purely a money grab to fuel the crooked political machine.

Soft drink consumption is declining while more people are getting obese. The most foolish aspect of the tax is that it exempts the group that consumes the most soda and is the most obese.

Posted: 8/2/2017 5:03:31 PM EDT

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That is a smoking hot woman.

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