Boulder passed the nation's steepest soda tax

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Originally Posted by Irving

For $100 you can get a soda stream at home and make anything you want taste like soda.

Soda streams are awesome by the way, and a great way to cut juice with water and still have kids love love love it.

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It took me a few years to stop saying "soda" and convert to pop. You f-ing with me?

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

That's an expensive work around for a dumb ass tax. New equipment, training, products, etc. Morons.

They'll end up screwing everyone who uses the fountains at convenience stores to buy diet soda (me) and charge them as well. Very few will even notice or care because it's "just a few cents" (like the bag tax).

And when I do drink pop, it's diet because all that sugar is sickening to me. Not that the chemicals in diet stuff is good for you, but the taste of all that sugar is just ewwwww to me.

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Diet drinks ? that sounds like a prius version of a soda drinker. NEW YORK CITY!

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

It took me a few years to stop saying "soda" and convert to pop. You f-ing with me?

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yeah they say shit differently out here.

But what separates us from other transplants is.... We didn't start a petition to change it, did we ;)

Anyone have stats on the Denver candy bar ban? I'd be interested in seeing how successful that was/is.

My guess is that Boulder will see no enhanced revenue and the surrounding towns will see an increase in soda sales. $3.8mil? How about "0" you stupid fawks! I doubt it will happen but i can dream, can't I?

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

yeah they say shit differently out here.

But what separates us from other transplants is.... We didn't start a petition to change it, did we ;)

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Hell no. [Awesom]

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Originally Posted by Ah Pook

Anyone have stats on the Denver candy bar ban? I'd be interested in seeing how successful that was/is.

My guess is that Boulder will see no enhanced revenue and the surrounding towns will see an increase in soda sales. $3.8mil? How about "0" you stupid fawks! I doubt it will happen but i can dream, can't I?

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Between you and me [Roll1] I haven't seen a local Beverage & Food establishment charge for the plastic bags. Is it not in effect yet or are they just ignoring the dumb ass law?

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

It took me a few years to stop saying "soda" and convert to pop. You f-ing with me?

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I grew up saying "pop" but purposely adopted soda. That's beside the point though, because I was talking about one of these: https://www.amazon.com/SodaStream-So...rds=sodastream

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

Between you and me [Roll1] I haven't seen a local Beverage & Food establishment charge for the plastic bags. Is it not in effect yet or are they just ignoring the dumb ass law?

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Boulder does. Spineless.....

The power that bes, in Ned, shoved it down the throats and got a 100% FU for compliance. That powers was soundly kicked to the curb in the last election. The sustainability twats still rub their naughty bits about all things "nanny state" bitch and moan but that's about all they do.

Meh. Every 2-3 years we'll drive through Boulder on the way to Estes Park. We make sure to light up so we can blow our cigar and cigarette smoke out the windows into their precious hippie air, but we never stop and spend money there. Took a shit at McDonalds once I believe.....

Where is this Boulder you speak of?

I may have driven through once in the 90's......

Everyone who has been in a Waffle House in Georgia knows every "soda" and "pop" is a coke, and then you specify Sprite, Coke, etc.

If I remember, I'll find the Lewis Grizzard bit on Youtube about how Yankees talk. It's hilarious.