April 19, 2024
Elected Officials
By Alex Lloyd Gross Nobody likes to pay additional taxes and when a politician votes to tax the citizenry, they are taking their political life and playing Russian Roulette with it. Just look at Cook County , Illinois. This is right in Chicago and there was a rising star named Toni Preckwinkle. She was destined…
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By Alex Lloyd Gross It’s been almost a year and half since the “Sweetened Beverage Tax” was launched and the city is still making attempts to laud it’s effectiveness. In some areas, such as center city, the tax is paid and sales have not dropped off . That’s due to the amount of tourists that…
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By Alex Lloyd Gross What do you do when you predict an outcome and parameters change? You alter the predictions, and that is what Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney has done with the Beverage Tax. Just this month, the State Supreme Court ruled that the tax stood on solid ground, from a legal perspective. That, after…
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Health
By Alex Lloyd Gross Yesterday, April 18, 2017, Philadelphia city officials were quick to bring out a public study about the “sweetened beverage tax” in Berkeley California. The study, by the Public Health Institute and the University of North Carolina were quick to find that this tax had health benefits, that sales of soda fell…
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By Alex Lloyd Gross Yes, you read the headline right. Starting this spring, Pepsi will no longer be supplying grocery stores in Philadelphia with 2-Liter bottles of soda and multi packs of cans.. They just are not selling in the city. That includes products bottled by Pepsi as well, such as Mountain Dew. However, Coke…
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By Alex Lloyd Gross Suburban stores in the Philadelphia area have watched soda and other beverages that are taxable inside the city, fly off the shelves. In fact, some stores have limits set on how much soda can be bought. In stark contrast, the soda aisle at local markets are empty, except for a few…
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