Illinois sweetened beverage tax goes into effect July 1st 2017-moved to the 12th now

[NanakiXI]

Teeqoz said:

NanakiXI said:
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/06/13/soda-tax-revenue-philadelphia/

Looks like this will be a failure for Philly.

And I can't understand for the life of me why bottled water isn't taxed. It's a luxury for most and could go towards building better filtration and water distributions.

Apparently they got less revenue than expected because soda sales fell more than expected. That's a huge success imo

You seem to be under the assumption that they are trying to make people healthy. They are doing this for pre-k and if it flops because of less consumption, then this program fails for education and hurts the exact people they are trying to help.

 

*Edit* - just to add, this most likely hasn't cut consumption. Just causes more people to drive further and use more gas. Which last I checked is not good for our environment.