Sentences with phrase «for soda tax»

Kevin Finnegan, the political director of 1199 S.E.I.U., had a simple explanation for the soda tax defeat: money.

The repeal followed a similar legislative defeat in Santa Fe, New Mexico earlier in the year and was seen at the time as a loss of momentum for soda tax advocates.

Not exact matches

Seattle's City Council voted on Monday to levy a special tax on sodas and other sugary beverages sold to consumers, becoming the latest of several local government bodies across the country to take such action for the sake of public health.

we have to pay taxes for everything from soda to gasoline.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

The introduction of a soda tax in Mexico in 2014, for instance, led to 3,000 job losses and soda consumption returned to pre-tax levels by mid-2015, thereby having no impact on public health.»

The ordinance imposes a general tax on the distribution of sugar - sweetened beverages including soda, energy drinks, and heavily sweetened tea, as well as added caloric sweeteners used to produce these sugar - sweetened beverages (for example the premade syrup used to make fountain drinks).

That gets interpreted kind of like tantamount to the soda tax in Chicago, for me,» Maddon added.

She makes the common sense argument that failing to pay for more healthful meals up front will only result in higher health care costs on the back end, and she considers a variety of ways to pay for universal lunch, such as a tax on soda or soda advertising, an increase in the capital gains tax, or by reducing income guarantees and price supports to producers of corn and soy.

For more on soda taxes, check out Dana Woldow's excellent «Soda Tax Myths» series on Beyond Chron, starting with this one.

Officials said the program, estimated to cost as much as $ 23 million over four years, could be paid for through a citywide soda tax.

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The union has been heavily involved in policy battles at the state Capitol over the past year, weighing on the fight against both the soda tax and wine - in - grocery stores (both dead for the time being).

The former New York City mayor, who's adamant about his political independence and gives to Republicans and Democrats who align with positions he wants, comes into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is quietly finishing as one of the biggest spenders of the 2016 cycle, coming into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

And is a dead ringer for orange soda (on which, in spite of former Gov. David Paterson's best efforts, there is still no so - called «fat» tax).

MANHATTAN — Gov. David Paterson is trying a new approach to sweeten the deal for lawmakers to pass his statewide soda tax.

[26][27][28][29][30][31] In late 2008, Young Americans for Liberty, with the endorsement of Rep. Paul, organized a protest called the Binghamton Tea Party for January 24 of the following year where participants dressing in Native American costumes and dumping soft drinks into New York's Susquehanna River, as a protest of former NY Governor David Paterson's proposed 18 % tax increase on soda.

He refused to acknowledge that we should tax soda for the same reason we tax cigarettes, so that people will be less likely to use it and harm themselves.

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas, and sports drinks would reduce obesity in adolescents more than other policies, such as exercise or an advertising ban, and would also generate significant revenue for additional obesity prevention activities, say researchers writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

His short animation on the topic of applying taxes to sugary beverages gets directly to the point... and the point is bad news for the giants in the soda industry.

Tax proponents expected the extra cost to result in higher prices for shoppers, which would discourage soda consumption.

Berkeley officials hoped that the soda tax would raise prices and lead residents to avoid energy - dense sugar - sweetened beverages, considered a culprit for high rates of obesity and chronic disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed decreasing the intake of such drinks among its main obesity prevention tactics in 2009, and some states and cities, like New York City and California already are thinking about such soda taxes.

(Similar taxes have been proposed, and some implemented, at the state and local levels for soda and junk food, as well.)

This article is just crazy... You should raise a tax against soda's lobbies as we did in France for public healthy reasons (espescially to protect the young people against sugar addiction and obesity; for instance sodas are forbidden in schools» restaurants).

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In Richmond in 2012, for instance, the ABA group fighting a soda tax referendum on the ballot was called «Community Coalition Against Beverage Taxes.»

Another $ 10,000 of soda money went to two incumbent commissioners democrat Dennis Deer and republican Sean Morrison who initially voted for the tax, but then voted to repeal the tax.

Along with this explicit anti-soda tax ad, there were a number of ads for soda and junk food — Coke, Pepsi, Doritos, and Snickers all made their usual attempts at humor to convince us to (continue to) eat and drink crap.