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Post by glorydays on Apr 1, 2017 14:24:45 GMT -5
What is the scoop with the Philadelphia Soda tax?.....or is it a sugar tax?
When I go to Gola I usually by a large coke. Do we pay the tax on campus or are we exempt as a religious affiliated institution.
I know Mayor Kenney is a La Salle grad. I heard Howard Eskin beating and banging on hizzoner last week.
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Post by coqui900 on Apr 2, 2017 15:20:44 GMT -5
What is the scoop with the Philadelphia Soda tax?.....or is it a sugar tax? When I go to Gola I usually by a large coke. Do we pay the tax on campus or are we exempt as a religious affiliated institution. I know Mayor Kenney is a La Salle grad. I heard Howard Eskin beating and banging on hizzoner last week. It's stupid. I live in the city. I don't drink alcohol. I drink soda and juices. I know excessive sugar is bad for me. But I also know that I'm in good shape physically and how to limit my intake. I think most adults know how to do that. I don't particularly want the Philadelphia government trying to steer my dietary choices. I am not saying this as some libertarian or anything like that. It's just that I think the city has way more important things to tackle than whether I have a Coke or not. I've seen some mark-ups on soda. In-city Wawa's sell normal sized soda's for $1.85. It's usually like $1.75 cheaper in the 'burbs. It's not like a huge difference, but it's enough of a mental difference for me to go to a Wawa outside of the city on my way home from work if I'm picking up a hoagie than to the one near my house. I was at the Henry James Saloon in Roxborough yesterday. I had two sodas. They charged me for both and it was like $3.50 total. They never charged me for refills in the past, but I'd imagine the surcharge they're paying is enough for them to justify a refill. The tax is for a good cause of establishing pre-K's throughout the city. I agree with that. But I also don't trust the city government to really do anything right or not tied into someone lining their pockets at some point. I've lived here enough to doubt anything an electricion-union-sponsoreed city politician (even a La Salle grad who says things I agree with about social issues) says. The city's tax code is an absolute mess. The benefits of the 10-year property tax abatement have worn off quickly. It was a great idea when instituted since it led to the development of a lot of areas in Center City/South Philly/NoLibs/Fishtown. But so many of the abatement properties (even in places like Kensington or Point Breeze) have $500,000-type prices and the people who live near their are subsidizing that. The developers are seeing the end of the abatement coming at some point. Here in Manayunk, they're cramming as many projects in as quickly as possible. There are all these new condos going up. I'm not against development, but they just built these condos on my block that have room for one parking space but three BRs. So there will be more than one car in each of those condos. It's already tough to park as is, since the rest of the block just has street parking. That doesn't even get into the nonsense that is the business tax. It's such a waste of time. I freelanced for a living in all of 2008. I then started working full-time again in 2009. I ran a business for one year. I *STILL* get bills from the city that say "based on your 2008 tax returns, you owe XXX in revenue." Every single year, I have to waste a day of my life and go to the Civil Services building, show them my tax returns for the past few years to show them I'm no longer self-employed, so I can pay them a $12 processing fee and whoever works there swears it will never happen again. I literally do this once a year. I love Philly so so so much but man does this government here shoot itself in its foot.
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Post by glorydays on Apr 2, 2017 17:27:01 GMT -5
Thanks. When it comes to development Delaware is dead. I have seen a lot of those construction cranes in Philly over the past few years....maybe 3 in the First State all together.
Our Building Trades guys are busy though....they are all working in Philly!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 23:50:43 GMT -5
What is the scoop with the Philadelphia Soda tax?.....or is it a sugar tax? When I go to Gola I usually by a large coke. Do we pay the tax on campus or are we exempt as a religious affiliated institution. I know Mayor Kenney is a La Salle grad. I heard Howard Eskin beating and banging on hizzoner last week. What would the religious exemption justification for soda taxation be? Haha "The sugary-beverages tax approved by Council adds 1.5 cents per ounce to the cost of most drinks with a sugar-based sweetener or artificial sugar substitute. The tax took effect Jan. 1. Some beverages are exempt, including baby formula; products that contain more than 50 percent milk, fresh fruit, or vegetables; and unsweetened drinks to which the buyer adds sugar, or requests that the seller adds sugar."Temple and St. Joes are subject to it, so I'd assume La Salle is as well. www.phillymag.com/news/2017/03/15/temple-blames-board-hike-soda-tax/It's stupid. I live in the city. I don't drink alcohol. I drink soda and juices. (other good points) I love Philly so so so much but man does this government here shoot itself in its foot. The sugar tax was sold as a salve for a lot of things, and the pre-K thing was the only one that actually came to pass. It was amusing watching the local media & political class treat it like their own Christmas list at the time, either out of ignorance of the process or eagerness to get it passed. The other stuff is Philadelphia polity in action. There's no one charismatic enough in the region to accumulate enough political capital to do what everyone knows needs to be done and rearrange and rationalize the political structures that can date back 300 years, but moves like the abatement and the soda tax (and the cigarette tax to fund schools) give the appearance of action and therefore progress. A lot of those condos rushing to get the abatement also aren't of the highest quality, and the abatement itself has long outlived its usefulness, at least in its present form. I could write thousands of words more here on city politics, the 2012 zoning code, and SEPTA, fascinating and infuriating as it is. Also, TIL Johnny Doc was a La Salle graduate...?
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