Boulder passed the nation's steepest soda tax

[beast556]

Im at a loss for words, I just don't know how you can be this stupid.

[Ridge]

I’ll bet just like demonrats always do, the estimated tax revenue numbers are based on no change in current buying behavior. I would love to have a grocery store just down the road. I can’t imagine any consumers who buys soda would buy in a Boulder grocery store. Does this tax include diet soda as well? This will be a nightmare for small convenience stores trying to figure out how to ring things up at the register with different taxes on each item.

2 cents per ounce makes it easy. 12 ounce can? Add 24 cents to the cost. 20oz bottle? Add 40 cents.

Except for the smallest shops, it's all programmed into the register, the cashier doesn't have to calculate anything.

[ben4372]

My guess it it will actually be a net of zero, or even a loss. Not to mention all the store owner admin frees that will get passed on to purchasers. How many extra city employees are going to be needed to enforce?

[Great-Kazoo]

I say the fat people in Boulder should file some kind of discrimination law suit.

After saturdays march, there shouldn't be any fat people.

2 cents per ounce makes it easy. 12 ounce can? Add 24 cents to the cost. 20oz bottle? Add 40 cents.

Except for the smallest shops, it's all programmed into the register, the cashier doesn't have to calculate anything.

I'd wager there's less than 0.02% of people out there on a register could do change in their head, let alone basic multiplication . If it weren't for "programmed" registers society still be standing in line waiting for our change

The ever present dumbing down of society

[sroz]

Wonder what the old 7-11 big gulp (or whatever their biggest drink is now) would cost or how they would account for it. Weigh it then add ice after you pay?

[Irving]

The work around will be buying the sweetener on it's own, and having a make your own soda deal, like the roll your own cigarette machines at smoke shops. Wait, isn't that how soda machines work? If you're paying $.02 per ounce of just sweetener, then the drink you can make out of said sweetener would go a long way and help even out the cost.

[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.

[GilpinGuy]

I wonder if the non-sugar sweetening folks (Splenda, etc.) contribute to the coffers of these initiatives.

[Irving]

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.

I forgot to mention that while that could be a work-around, I doubt anyone will go through the trouble. 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.

[Big E3]

2 cents per ounce makes it easy. 12 ounce can? Add 24 cents to the cost. 20oz bottle? Add 40 cents.

Except for the smallest shops, it's all programmed into the register, the cashier doesn't have to calculate anything.

I was trying to confuse them with reality, so maybe they would give up. You are making sense, doing the hard work (math) for them. Are you sure you aren’t on the Boulder City Counsel or something?