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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:56 am 
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Anyone stocking up now or devising a plan to drive out to the suburbs after July 1?

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:56 am 
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:57 am 
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Soda expires. Gets flat and syrupy.

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Jbi11s wrote:
Soda expires. Gets flat and syrupy.

Sounds kinky.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:00 am 
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Soda expires. Gets flat and syrupy.


Actually the stuff with sugar lasts significantly longer than the diet drinks. You get a fresh date of about 6 months if the stuff has sugar in it. The aspartame stuff has a fresh date of less than 3 months.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:11 am 
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:13 am 
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:14 am 
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does the tax count when you order pop at fast food places or restaurants?


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:42 am 
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does the tax count when you order pop at fast food places or restaurants?


Yeah, the only one they said were getting a waiver was the vending machines.

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Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:37 pm 
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Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.

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Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.


Where do you draw the line? Shellfish, steak, 85/15 ground beef?

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:52 pm 
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Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.


Lobster and prime NY strip steaks are also eligible purchases


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Regular Reader wrote:
IMU wrote:
Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.


Where do you draw the line? Shellfish, steak, 85/15 ground beef?


no more lean than 70/30


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Regular Reader wrote:
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Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.


Where do you draw the line? Shellfish, steak, 85/15 ground beef?

that's my diet! What, you have a problem with those three staples?

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Regular Reader wrote:
IMU wrote:
Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.


Where do you draw the line? Shellfish, steak, 85/15 ground beef?

Glad you asked. Meat and seafood is subsidized at $8 / pound. The difference must be paid for with cash. So...you get the cheap shit or you get none at all. No Boar's Head or Omaha Steaks.

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City of Fools wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
IMU wrote:
Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.


Where do you draw the line? Shellfish, steak, 85/15 ground beef?

that's my diet! What, you have a problem with those three staples?


I hate 85/15 ground beef :lol:

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IMU wrote:
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IMU wrote:
Jaw Breaker wrote:
Alternatively, if you have a friend or acquaintance on food stamps, you can have them buy for you...apparently they are exempt from the tax.

Soft drinks should not be an eligible purchase with a link card / food stamps / whatever.


Where do you draw the line? Shellfish, steak, 85/15 ground beef?

Glad you asked. Meat and seafood is subsidized at $8 / pound. The difference must be paid for with cash. So...you get the cheap shit or you get none at all. No Boar's Head or Omaha Steaks.


It's clear that you've thought about this before :lol:

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Not in this depth, but it is an interesting exercise.

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Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.

Its a good window into how laws get made in liberal utopia's like Chicago though. Some professor gets an idea, does a "study" (that is rigged to confirm his idea) and then rubs elbows with politicians at parties bragging about his magic bullet idea. There is absolutely no doubt that this tax will fail, but the projected windfall (about 65% of which will actually materialize) is probably going to give the county enough breathing room to borrow a couple billion that it will waste/embezzle.

That's what sets Chicago/Cook County apart, the goal of these sales of public assets and boutique taxes is not to actually raise money, its to lure in creditors so they can keep up their pathological desire to borrow borrow borrow. This tax is going to make the country worse off financially, hurt the poor and do nothing to improve public health. It will benefit a few contractors and politicians who temporarily have more of someone else's money to play around with.


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Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.
Sounds like it is working then. Good for Philadelphia.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.
Sounds like it is working then. Good for Philadelphia.

Well the issue they are having is people are still drinking the shit. Just only when its on sale, from outside Philly or sold illegally from a cooler on a street corner.


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America wrote:
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America wrote:
Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.
Sounds like it is working then. Good for Philadelphia.

Well the issue they are having is people are still drinking the shit. Just only when its on sale, from outside Philly or sold illegally from a cooler on a street corner.
So why are there layoffs if the companies are selling just as much?

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
America wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
America wrote:
Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.
Sounds like it is working then. Good for Philadelphia.

Well the issue they are having is people are still drinking the shit. Just only when its on sale, from outside Philly or sold illegally from a cooler on a street corner.
So why are there layoffs if the companies are selling just as much?

:lol: Not being reeled into this nonsense, find someone else.


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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
America wrote:
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America wrote:
Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.
Sounds like it is working then. Good for Philadelphia.

Well the issue they are having is people are still drinking the shit. Just only when its on sale, from outside Philly or sold illegally from a cooler on a street corner.
So why are there layoffs if the companies are selling just as much?


The burgeoning black market for pop? :lol:

Given my returning taste for the crap, I'm actually kind of glad this is getting implemented. My cheap side is stronger than the part that often craves the crap.

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America wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
America wrote:
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America wrote:
Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.
Sounds like it is working then. Good for Philadelphia.

Well the issue they are having is people are still drinking the shit. Just only when its on sale, from outside Philly or sold illegally from a cooler on a street corner.
So why are there layoffs if the companies are selling just as much?

:lol: Not being reeled into this nonsense, find someone else.
You said there was a 30% drop in sales and it is causing large amounts of layoffs but you also seem to be saying that people are still consuming it in the same amounts. That makes no sense so now you are acting like I'm the one that is causing this problem of questioning your illogical statements.

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Good it will help Oak Park tax revenues.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
America wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
America wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
America wrote:
Philadelphia implemented a similar tax and thus far it has really only caused large amounts of layoffs due to a 30% dropoff in sweetened drink sales. Revenues are not going to meet their goals, even in the first year.
Sounds like it is working then. Good for Philadelphia.

Well the issue they are having is people are still drinking the shit. Just only when its on sale, from outside Philly or sold illegally from a cooler on a street corner.
So why are there layoffs if the companies are selling just as much?

:lol: Not being reeled into this nonsense, find someone else.
You said there was a 30% drop in sales and it is causing large amounts of layoffs but you also seem to be saying that people are still consuming it in the same amounts. That makes no sense so now you are acting like I'm the one that is causing this problem of questioning your illogical statements.

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Quality avoidance. I respect that.

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Food stamps are what, like $100 a month or something? Who's buying Omaha Steaks on that and still feeding their family?

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