Evil Corporations Price Gouging the Soda-Dependent

[Fife]

Philly Mayor Blames ‘Price Gouging’ for Outrage Generated by City’s New Soda Tax

After driving up the cost of soda and other sugary drinks with a new tax, the mayor of Philadelphia is now trying to blame businesses for charging higher prices (and for the outrage those prices have generated).

The incidence of the tax, graphically: http://www.philly.com/philly/infographi ... 17911.html

What flaming assholes the rent-seeking statists are. They pass an obscenely regressive "sin" tax, and then cry crocodile tears for angry consumers, screeching "price gouging!"

Outrageous.

[jbird4049]

Philly Mayor Blames ‘Price Gouging’ for Outrage Generated by City’s New Soda Tax

After driving up the cost of soda and other sugary drinks with a new tax, the mayor of Philadelphia is now trying to blame businesses for charging higher prices (and for the outrage those prices have generated).

The incidence of the tax, graphically: http://www.philly.com/philly/infographi ... 17911.html

What flaming assholes the rent-seeking statists are. They pass an obscenely regressive "sin" tax, and then cry crocodile tears for angry consumers, screeching "price gouging!"

Outrageous.

Yeah, so? We should be surprised?

Let's see, the Evil corrupt corporations selling subsidized sugar syrup, teeth rotten, diabetes causing, heart attack making, more expensive than gasoline, flavored sugar water, or the Evil, lying, corrupt, nannyist, statist, tax gouging, political weasels.

If some corporate executive, or a big city mayor said water was wet, I would double check that fact.

[Speaker to Animals]

Diet soda is my one vice. Sin tax my soda and we are going to war.

[TheReal_ND]

Lol vices get taxed and cost too much. Who knew?

[Kazmyr]

In the real world, those sandwich shops and grocery stores, of course, are adjusting the retail price of sugary drinks to make up for the added cost imposed by the tax. Some of them have posted signs to inform customers why drink prices have skyrocketed.

Kenney doesn't like that. He called those efforts "wrong" and "misleading" and suggested that it could be an extension of the expensive fight put up by soda companies, retailers, and even the city's Teamsters Union in a failing effort to prevent the tax from passing in the first place.

"This is what they do," Kenney told KYW News. "And they'll continue to lose because their legal case is not sound and their public case is not sound."