Showing posts with label sweetened beverages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweetened beverages. Show all posts
Friday, December 1, 2017

EXTRA: Pop tax falls flat, while judicial temperaments soar sky high

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Friday was the day that the Cook County tax on sweetened beverages (a.k.a., the pop tax) came to an end. With it being a new fiscal year for...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Cook County ‘pop tax’ upsets political structure’s sense of who matters

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If you think about it, it’s really not surprising to learn that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, doesn’t think much of the...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Retailers get defensive about pop prices

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I stopped the other day at a place to get myself something to eat – a hamburger and Coca Cola (I took a pass on the fries) – and wound up ge...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

We’re in for a month of Hell; a slew of ads warning us of pop, tax evils

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I’m sure the people who are all outraged over the price of pop these days, what with the cost added due to the Cook County tax on sweetened ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

There have always been people seeking to save a penny or two on pop buys

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I can’t help but wonder what my late mother would be saying these days, what with the Cook County tax on sweetened beverages that has booste...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Nobody wants to pay taxes, but they’ll also complain about lack of services

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There’s a scene in the 1995 film “My Family” in which actor Jimmy Smits’ character marries a woman from El Salvador to bolster her efforts t...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Cook: Somebody must pay pop tax

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Cook County Board officials estimate that some $17 million in revenue was lost during the month of July – which is when the courts considere...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Saving jobs? Or cheap pop!

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Are we really on the verge of putting some 1,100 people out-of-work because we want to keep the price of pop and other sweetened drinks as l...