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

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SanAndreasX said:

JWeinCom said:
I'm tentatively ok with this, depending on where the money goes. If it goes towards things like nutrition education for children, subsidies for healthful food, etc, I'm ok with it.

It won't, it never does. Goes straight into the pockets of politicians, or to cover shortfalls in other areas of government that were mismanaged. Same as red light cameras.

Enough with these petty cash grabs.

There has never been a moment where a remotely significant (>0.1%, let's say, so 3.8 billion$ per year) portion of american tax funds have gone to politicians, legally or not.

What concerns mismanagment, do you think the problem is solved by NOT covering the shortfalls?