Hey Toni, You Ready for This?
Philly voters just learned how badly they got screwed by a democrat:
- Soft drink shoppers are experiencing “sticker shock” at steep price hikes on their favorite products after a massive soda tax went into effect in Philadelphia Sunday.
The contentious soda tax secured passage in June but consumers in Philadelphia are still flabbergasted by the price increases the tax is sparking. In some cases, shoppers found that they were paying more for the soda tax than the actual product they were purchasing. The 1.5 cents per ounce tax on sugary drinks is implemented at the distribution level, meaning retailers must choose how much of the cost to pass onto consumers at the shelves. A 12-pack of Lipton Diet Green Tea at a Save-A-Lot in the city is now priced at $8.03, instead the $4.99 it costed in December, reports WPVI.
And how did such a thing happen? Someone failed Economics 101:
- After driving up the cost of soda and other sugary drinks with a new tax, the mayor of Philadelphia is now trying to blame businesses for charging higher prices
[...] "They're gouging their own customers," [Mayor] Kenney said
[...] The distributors sells five-gallon boxes of syrup that can be used in soda fountains, and each box costs a retailer about $60. Thanks to the city's new tax, though, retailers have to pay $57.60 in taxes for each of those boxes of syrup.
"We're not talking about a couple of bucks on a $60 item," Andy Pincus, who owns Carbonator Rental Services, told Newsworks. "We're talking about $57.60 on a $60 item. It's too big not to pass on."
Prickwrinkle raised the County tax a penny per ounce, but it's still going to bite consumers hard. It's going to bite businesses even harder when people start shopping in surrounding counties and even Indiana. And remember, Prickwrinkle herself broke the tie vote, casting the deciding vote at the Board meeting.
Labels: county, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
74 Comments:
Do you think these corrupt bastards really care? Come on.... They don't pay for anything, they get everything for FREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
The irony is that this soda tax -- like the gun tax, ammo tax, cannabis tax, blah, blah....-- will amount to nothing. A drop in the bucket.
Ultimately, massive property tax hikes will have to be passed and that will be the nail in the coffin for the working middle class in Chicago. It will precipitate a mass exodus that will leave only the rich (who can afford any taxes), and the poor (who will again be excused from paying any taxes).
And that, my friends, is how leftists create the very wealth disparities they blame on everybody else.
And after people stop buying in Cook County, they'll have to raise the tax on something else, because they're counting on that revenue, which, off course, won't be there. Fucking democrats are the scourge of society.
And when you go shopping for soda pop outside Crooked County, what else are you going to buy?
Expect a significant decrease in county and city sales taxes collected overall.
Prickwinkle, wrong on everything but she sure gets those votes at election time, doesn't she? I wonder why?
And nothing will happen to her or any of the other politicians. They will just find a way to blame the police. Oh If people were only so passionate about the politicians as they are about slamming the police . (because we represent the government they deal with on a daily basis.)
Won't buy nothing in Chicago or Cook County. To many taxes. It's a road trip to near by counties to do my shopping.
All the more reason to shop in the burbs or across state line. Fuck the city/county and their regressive tax structure to cover their overlapping bureaucratic spending.
Isn't it true if you buy it with a SNAP card (or whatever they are calling Food Stamps today?), you wouldn't pay taxes on it? Any food you buy at the Groceries is "tax-free" for those on that "Entitlement".
Just another tax on those who don't have a SNAP card to "gets it without taxes on it".
What's the over/under on how long it takes some enterprising member of the 'community' to load up a truck in Indiana with soda, and start selling 'loosies'? Nothing illegal about bringing truckloads of soda over the border so the BATFE won't mind...
It ain't going to bite me at all because one, I don't buy that shit anyway and two, if I do buy it, it won't be in Crook County.
Any one wanna buy a 24 pack
12x16oz. x 1.5 cents= 2.88£€¥
I already gas and shop in Hammond; now I can buy the Soda there as well. Such a backwards place, will NEVER get out of debt.
The City needs the school district to file for bankruptcy (the numbers will only get bigger and bigger every year - the Gov was right in not giving them that money) and then use monies saved to have the State Police train the candidates/cadets.
THAT's going to cost Bullwinkle her Job , and she can take that silly unqualified daughter of hers Kim Fox out the door with her ass.
Its cheaper to drive to another County or Indiana or Wisconsin and fill the car trunk up with what you want and drive back to the county!
Preckwinkle must be stupid, if she believes people and or folks going to put up with this!
Next election, Preckwinkle hits the unemployment line!
I leave the county and city frequently to my getaway house!
I can promise the county and city, nothing will be bought in SHitcago and Crook County!
This place is going to lose a lot of tax revenues, because as President Trump said it best.
Politicians are STUPID!
Kimmie Fox' god mother will be history. Pepperwinkle is a hater and is a double to Rahm. She even smells like a goat, ask the people in the chambers. She got more cat hair on her cloths to make a coat. Dupage county, for pop too now. Let her sell the forests to developers, no one goes there anyway but men seeking other squirrels.
Good thing that this tax doesn't affect LINK card holders who need these sugary drinks for their breakfast.
Dupage county once a month for bulk soda buying. Its going to be bring my own can to restaurants.
This is a tax that hits the poor and all how can not get out of cook county
the stores across the county line will be doing well from now on as for me
I'm looking to get out ill but the question wear to go?.
The state of ill is going down the carper and who will have to pay the bill
for the democrats miss management. will the voters of ill ever wake up?.
I will be laughing my ass off wen they kick this assholes out and put them behind bars. stay safe.
Democrats don't understand business. Trump does.
it is not like a hundred miles of nothing beyond cook county borders. remember, we go high but often recieve low. fk'en democrats are a riot.
Who would buy anything in Cook County anyway? Are you stupid?
that old ugly bitch aint ever drank anything sweet........
thats why she looks like an old dried up prune
Gas, tobacco, guns, and ammo are already purchased in Du Page County. Now the coca-cola will be too.
So if you check this week's online ads for Jewel, you'll find a 24-pack of 12-ounce cans of soda selling for $4.99 (regular price $8.49). At a penny an ounce, the $2.88 Toni Tax will amount to a 57.7% sales tax on your soda, sugar-sweetened or not. On the regular price of $8.49, the $2.88 is "only" a 33.5% sales tax. But don't worry --- if you have an EBT food stamp (SNAP) card, you won't be charged the new tax (and a recent NY Times article says soda is the most popular item purchased with SNAP cards).
And as an added bonus, if you forget your cloth grocery bags, Rahm and Company will only tax you 5 cents on a 2-cent plastic grocery bag (7 cents total per bag), or a 250% tax on that 2-cent bag. Ah, isn't it a privilege to live in such a progressive, compassionate community!
Just like the water aisle shrunk in Chicago stores so will the Soda aisles in Cook County. Cut the budget instead of coming up with new taxes. Dems got to go.
Prickwinkle is an IDIOT!
The federal government needs to pass a law against "gross political idiocy" and empower local police and citizens to make arrests. penalties should include banishment to arctic areas of Alaska, and no cellphones.
After driving up the cost of soda and other sugary drinks with a new tax, the mayor of Philadelphia is now trying to blame businesses for charging higher prices
[...] "They're gouging their own customers," [Mayor] Kenney said
Democrats are so dumb. He probably is genuinely shocked that the price went up. I doubt if any of his yes men warned him.
Love your "Economics 101" remark. Same problem all libs have. They actually think that businesses absorb ANY taxes at all. A business simply passes on the tax (and all other costs of doing business) to you and me - the customer. Same thing with this $15/hr. bullshit; the jar only holds a certain number of M&M's, kiddies, and when you have to pay out more M&M's than you have in the jar, you close your doors.
The mayor has huge C.O.Jones to get up and accuse merchants of gouging when they are merely passing on the taxes that the mayor insisted would help the collective health of the comrades in Philly.
I just love watching liberals eat their young.........
Let them drink water......
Recently, I went shopping at an Aldi's, which is, of course, a discount grocery store.
I picked up a two liter bottle of a citrus flavored soft drink. It was on sale and it cost 79 cents. After checking out at the cash register, I reviewed the receipt and found that the item cost $1.14 with the taxes included. The City of Chicago had added 35 cents in tax to this beverage purchase.
Bear in mind, that Preckwinkle's soft drink tax has not kicked in yet (it starts next summer) and the Illinois General Assembly is mulling over adding a similar tax of its own. A beverage industry spokesman said the new taxes could add more than $6.00 to the price of a case of soda.
Since the taxes are applied per ounce, is there any chance that Coca Cola will reintroduce its classic bottle (6 fluid ounces)?
The next generation of bootleggers is going to be running cases of soft drinks from neighboring states.
Gas was $2.15 in Indiana yesterday, the soda tax is just one more reason to shop out of state.
I once saw Preckwinkle dining in a restaurant near the County Building. She is a fright show attraction. What made me question her sanity was the fact that she was wearing two different shoes that did not match.
The only thing that I would say to her credit is that she is one of the rare politicians who expressed misgivings about Obama's messianic qualities. She had to deal with him in local politics and knew that he was and is a liar and a faker.
LxMAO, Guess what the legislation down state is incorporating aa sugar tax for the whole state. Next stop for drinks Wisconsin.
Jewel and Target have been promoting fruit flavored sparking water a lot recently. No sugar and no artificial sweetener in it. I guess that is the way the soda companies and the retailers hope to maintain soda sales.
Prickwrinkle slid around the blocker on this one tho. She placed the tax as an add-on at the retail level. Whereby Fed rules that if you pay for it with a LINK card you don't get charged the tax. You pay the tax if you pay cash or use earned money.
And are stupid enough to buy in the County.
Philly, by putting the tax at distribution or wholesale level, whacks everybody.
What will be the next step? Requiring the manufacturers to affix tax stamps to sugary drink cans destined for sale in the county?
Why not put a tax on junk foods too? Like Flamin Hots?
I can see someone becoming a modern day bootlegger but for soda syrup and people acting like hypes doing there best impression of dave chappelle roaming the west side looking for soda lol
Fuck Chirak, Crook County, Illinoise!!!
INDIANA IS THE PLACE TO SHOP!!!
Zero taxes!!!
Guns, ammo, food, fuel, clothes, etc...
I can keep going.
Best of all they show the fraud that Chicago is.
You can't buy bottled water there.
It is illegal. While Chicago will gladly sell
you as much water as is necessary for you
to live. At a premium of course. Now you
can also include a ridiculous tax for a necessity
of life.
I might soon start selling fresh air by the can
and tax the pants off it!!!
By Law the tax cannot be charged to people using a LINK Card. True look it up
Stop drinking the crap thats no good for you.
Remember, the tax will not be charged to SNAP (food stamp,linkcard whatever recipients)....which makes the below info from a New York Times article 3 days ago borderline annoying/depressing
"The findings show that the No. 1 purchases by SNAP households are soft drinks, which accounted for 5 percent of the dollars they spent on food. The category of ‘sweetened beverages,’ which includes fruit juices, energy drinks and sweetened teas, accounted for almost 10 percent of the dollars they spent on food. “In this sense, SNAP is a multibillion-dollar taxpayer subsidy of the soda industry,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. “It’s pretty shocking.”
For years, dozens of cities, states and medical groups have urged changes to SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to help improve nutrition among the 43 million poorest Americans who receive food stamps. .."
The crying sad thing about this kind of crap is when the people that elected Prickwrinkle to office move to Westmont to escape all this baloney they STILL vote for the exact same kind of lying weasels that ruined the place they just vamoosed from.
Hell, if Prickwrinkle ran for governor as a Democrat they'd vote for her. 'For da chillun!'
Absolutely pathetic.
The democrats truly believe that they can tax the citizens into prosperity.
It was all fine when Big Momma gummint did thisto booze. It was better yet when she did it to those nasty little cigarettes. It was supposedly best to now to do it to each round of ammunition too!!!!
But outrage when it is applied to sugary drinks? Are you kidding me?
Mark my words, this is going to be the genesis of some argument in the "City" that ends in one brother shooting another. I flat guarantee it.
Hey peeps, maybe we are supposed to pay tax, rather than taxES (layers and layers and layers and layers and layers of taxES!)
" It will precipitate a mass exodus that will leave only the rich (who can afford any taxes), ..."
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The rich aren't stupid. Small New England state imposed high taxes on the very wealthy. A year or two later the state budget was in the red by $X amount. Surprised a lot of Democrats. Then they discovered that $X was exactly the same amount of state taxes paid by extremely wealthy individual Y who had moved to Florida as a result of the new tax law. One single person.
The Dems never get it. Just keep spending, raising taxes on whoever's left, and thinking up new things to tax, thinking somehow they can tax their way to prosperity. Never worked before; never will.
Here go the usual food stamp crybabies. The actual truth is that food stamps is an indirect subsidy to the farmers, still out of the USDA budget. Big box retailers and fast food joints fight to get access to food stamp purchases. I used to work in non-profit so I slept and breathed this stuff a few years. Food stamps is a great way to increase corporate revenues while getting poor democrat votes. It actually works on both sides of the aisle.
SHEEEEIT!
Which evil republican man did this to us?
We luvs us some flamin hots washed down with fruit punch here in the hood!
Makes you bulletproof dont you know.
Aint no way our girl Tony did this to us!
Gotta find someone to blame pronto!
O/T but relevant to any discussion of Chicago politics is the following academic study:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309845639_Political_ideology_predicts_involvement_in_crime
But you all probably figured this out already, didn't you?
Repeat after me: the left is mentally ill.
Time and time and time again their policies blow up in their faces. Time and time again they destroy beautiful and viable locations.
And they NEVER, ever, ever, ever take the blame for anything.
They indulge in no introspection whatsoever. All they know how to do is bloviate, blame and tax. That's it, in a nutshell. They will take, take, take, take, take until there is nothing left to take and then they will blame you for not having more to give them.
They are delusional, megalomaniacal, infantile, whining, entitled parasites who wreck everything they get their grasping paws on. If thwarted, they throw tantrums, and they don't care who they hurt or what they trash.
They are controlled utterly by emotion and impulse: in short, they are toddlers in grownup bodies.
Anyone expecting anything but mayhem and chaos with such creatures at the wheel is as mentally deranged as they are. Stop expecting justice, honesty, decency, rationality or reality to appear anytime soon. It ain't gonna happen, not while toddlers are in charge.
There is no way to work around fools like this. They need to be forcibly put down and removed from power, and we do not yet have the testicular fortitude in this country to do what needs to be done: namely, put the toddlers in permanent timeout (in whatever way works best) and let grownups resume command.
I don't see that happening until they have wrecked things so badly that our very survival depends on getting their hands off the steering wheel. They have invaded every aspect of our lives, they run the media and our schools, and they have indoctrinated our young people with the most vile and nasty falsehoods imaginable, falsehoods that sabotage and undermine the culture and practices that actually support self sufficiency and freedom (traditional western civ/American values). They are entrenched in our culture. Rooting them out will be very, very hard. One president is simply not enough, we need to reverse a 50 year tide of madness. I do not see a tidy or nice way of doing this.
They have Chicago by the throat, soon it too will go the way of Detroit. They are the anti-Midas: everything they touch crumbles and is destroyed.
Get out while the getting is good and your house will still sell for something. If you stay and try to ride it out or carry the burden, all you are doing is propping up their idiocy and making their illusion of control last longer, no different than coddling a junkie that is going to OD the minute you turn your back. Everything you do that is productive and decent is just more food for the insatiable vampire. Leave it and let it die of starvation and shrivel in the daylight of reality.
The ship is gonna sink. Stop bailing and get on a lifeboat.
For you South Side folks areas of Tinley Park is Will County and Indiana is just a short 20 minute drive from the South end so begin doing more of your shopping in those places. You save on bottled water, sugar, ammunition and plastic bag tax not to mention your over all retail tax. I been doing it for years and cant believe the savings. Walmart has a new store in Hammond,In. not to mention Cabelas is next door to it.
I live just north of Philly and I remember when they decided to pass this tax ... I did the math and laughed my ass off thinking are you kidding me ... Its almost dollar for dollar product and tax .... And the kicker they just released a study on what the leading product our welfare ticks spend our tax dollar on ... Yep .... You got it .... Soda .... I don't know if here in Pa welfare ticks are hit with this tax but would serve them right if they did
IAm shopping in Hammond ind I do it for gas and cig now food no more money for the city or state
Friend of mine is raking in cash setting up a co-op bulk purchase in Indiana imports to this criminal county! Winning!!
Adding $8 to a case of red pop is not a challenge for the 10 or More Shopliffer'.
Besides, EBT Link is exempt from taxation.
$1.5 Billion of EBT is spent on sugery pop drinks and snackers.
EBT debits are purchased for 50¢ on the Dollar any Saleh's Corner Stow.
PrickWrinkle is an sour asshole, obama is a sore loser asshole.
Saving all those dollars by closing the jail wasn't meant to be a taxpayer benefit.
What happens when sales go down...raise another tax already in place to make up difference.
That's what cable, phone and gas are for.
Sharp people running Cook Co.
Costco in Lake County every two weeks,
Hahaha democrats eat their own. Worthless cannibals.
But yet link card holders are exempt from the tax! Another reason to quit drinking that shit, up to 18 teaspoons of sugar in every 12 ounce serving drink water better for you!
Once again, no forethought to the lazy ass politicians nickel and diming the taxpayer to death.....
If I have to drive my ass to another county for smokes and soda pop, I am going to be doing my grocery shopping there too.....then
Sorry, Jewel employees and Butera employees and Mariano employees......expect some big layoffs here in this godforsaken city and county......your owners and management should have protested louder and got that tax scrapped......
No wonder people are leaving in droves.....scratch that.......no wonder working TAXPAYERS are leaving in droves!
Rahm and Madigan and Cullerton and Preckwinkle have no one to blame but themselves......what a great city this will be when there are no TAXPAYERS left to pay the freight.....
In Econ 101 you learn "Bad money drives good money out." Same goes for taxes, only significantly lower taxes will drive consumers and businesses that are able to go elsewhere to do just that.
The last time I was visiting in the Chicago area I was astounded at the sales, gas, and property taxes. Where I live the sales tax is 6%, my current property taxes are $1,972.00 for a 2600 sq ft house with a 2 car garage and a screened in 450sf porch on a 1 acre lot. Also no state, county or local income taxes. Oh, and the weather today is in 60's. Wonder what my taxes would have been in my old neighborhood, Marquette Park?
Next Step,
The politicians are going to looking for ways to charge you the taxes you avoided by buying across the county line.
You bought those cigarettes and soda pop in Indiana?
The Crooked County Politicians think You still owe the county the taxes you avoided.
At $2.16 per twelve pack and how much? per cigarette pack, the dollars add up quick.
Just wait until they get access to your charge card bills and add it all up.
Mr. Smith, you owe the County $1,213.24 on the Soda, Liquor, and Cigarettes you purchased in Indiana last year.
You are nothing but a pocket full of dollars to be shaken down by the Democrat Machine.
[...] "They're gouging their own customers," [Mayor] Kenney said
The worst part is the Idiot was not laughed at when he said it.
The journalists and the Democrats believe this.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The federal government needs to pass a law against "gross political idiocy" and empower local police and citizens to make arrests. penalties should include banishment to arctic areas of Alaska, and no cellphones.
1/16/2017 08:29:00 AM
They keep voting for the ignorant morons because the ignorant morons have a (D) after their names on the ballot.
Lake County, DuPage County, Indiana Border and Wisconsin Border. New shopping areas for Cook county residents.
Quit shopping in Chicago & Cook County . Problem solved ! Fuck the politicians !
You know they will be selling loosies of Pepsi and whatnot at the on/off ramps in the area come summertime.
The collected tax money goes to illegal aliens and bullwinkle over night camping in the forest preserves.
When you have those who decide who runs for office making all the rules, (democommies) you get the scum that runs and gets elected. Simple.
Was just watching the Popeye movie the other day... pretty fitting tribute to Crook County tax collectors.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ahJPxfGp4
DemocRats love raising taxes. Taxpayers be damned!
People may be slow, but they ain't stupid.
Fe Fi Fo Fum
Get the hell out of Cook County, here I come!
I guess they don't realize people just won't be going out do cook county to get soda, they will do all their grocery shopping out of cook county and fill their gas tanks up, too. Much more of a loss here .... Village idiots running the show.
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