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Washington State had had a "candy" tax for at least a decade. I put candy on quotes, because some candy is exempt. But then Seattle added their per ounce sweete
by chrismcb 4y ago
Washington State had had a "candy" tax for at least a decade. I put candy on quotes, because some candy is exempt.
But then Seattle added their per ounce sweetened soda tax. The per ounce concept always seemed wrong to me. Because the lower calorie drinks are cheaper but a per ounce tax hits them more.
What is worse is a milk based drink is excempt, so milk shakes, the highest caloric drink isn't taxed.
- vintermann 4y agoIf these results are correct, I expect it's from terrible lobbyist-butchered implementations like that, where a good substitute product (e.g. sugar free soda) is taxed equally much, or a worse substitute product (e.g milkshakes) avoids the tax.