About that Chicago soda tax

[osoab]

I don't think any of the other soda taxers have done this. I think they are trying to keep the proles happy, all 872,000 of them. I do like the fact they tax the money they dole out. Makes them feel apart of society.

Cook County reversal: Soda tax won't apply to food stamp purchases after all (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-soda-tax-food-stamps-exemption-0610-biz-20170609-story.html#nt=oft02a-2la1)

Cook County's sweetened beverage tax will not apply to purchases made with food stamp benefits, county officials said this week, marking the second reversal on the matter since the tax was approved in November.

That means more than 872,000 people in Cook County won't have to pay the penny-per-ounce tax on sugar- and artificially sweetened beverages, which goes into effect July 1. Under federal law, purchases made with benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics-government/government/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-ORGOV000323-topic.html), or SNAP, are exempt from state and local taxes.



Over a full year, the sweetened beverage tax is projected to bring in about $223.8 million a year, according to county estimates. The revenue is intended to fill a gaping hole in the budget and prevent the further erosion of services.
Samstein declined to comment on how the SNAP exemption will affect the county's revenue projection, saying county finance officials are working on budget forecast figures that will be presented to the Board of Commissioners by the end of the month.





Under 20% of the county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois



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[crimethink]

Wow. Food Stamps should not be used to purchase soda pop in any case.

[cheka.]

the maps of obesity percent and food stamp percent overlay PERFECTLY. but nyc.dc demands stealing money from working people to give food welfare to fat-ass deadwood

like giving alcoholics free liquor

wtf

[crimethink]

the maps of obesity percent and food stamp percent overlay PERFECTLY. but nyc.dc demands stealing money from working people to give food welfare to fat-ass deadwood

like giving alcoholics free liquor

wtf

Did you know that Food Stamps can be used to purchase food-producing seeds? I wonder when the last time that actually happened.

[Stop Making Cents]

Did you know that Food Stamps can be used to purchase food-producing seeds? I wonder when the last time that actually happened.

ha ha ha, "yo, dontavious, git me some dat organic seed shit - we be growin a gahden mufugga ! "

[Glass]

how much food stamp spent on Soda. Thats millions.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2016/11/23/2016.11.23%20-%20SNAP%201_0.jpg


Per the study, nearly $360mm, or 5.4% of the $6.6BN of food expenditures made by SNAP recipients, is spent on soft drinks alone.

Even worse, when we added up all of the commodities that would typically be considered "junk food" (i.e. soft drinks, candy, cakes, energy drinks, etc.), we found that roughly $950mm, or just over 14% of the aggregate $6.6BN of food expenditures made by SNAP recipients, is spent on unnecessary, unhealthy products.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2016/11/23/2016.11.23%20-%20SNAP%202_1_0.jpg
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/look-how-much-junk-food-bought-taxpayer-funded-food-stamps

[Glass]

Good news though:

Trump Targets Food Stamps With Proposed Fee On Retailers

Trump's proposal to overhaul the U.S. food stamp program, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as it's currently known, has brought with it a widely overlooked fee that could end up costing food retailers billions. Per MSN (http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-wants-to-start-charging-stores-to-accept-food-stamps/ar-BBCf5A2?ocid=se)



That provision is a new fee that the White House wants to charge retailers that accept food stamps, which is now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The Office of Management and Budget said the fee would be assessed when stores sign up and would require renewal after five years. The budget office said the amount would depend on the size and type of retailer, but the president's budget estimates that the fee would generate $2.4 billion in revenue over the next decade.

Who gets all the SNAP money? Lets all guess shall we?
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/06/07/2017.06.07%20-%20SNAP%201_0.jpg
Per the chart below, U.S. taxpayers currently distribute roughly $70 billion per year worth of food stamps to over 50 million people.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/trump-targets-food-stamps-proposed-fee-retailers

Will (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/trump-targets-food-stamps-proposed-fee-retailersWill) it be a Percentage based fee? Some cents for every dollar received from SNAP? Or will it be a fixed annual fee? That smaller businesses won't be able to recoup as easily as the big players.... further skewing the commercial playing field.

[Stop Making Cents]

Indians are buying up all the small town grocery stores around here. Probably with your tax dollars!!!

[Glass]

Indians are buying up all the small town grocery stores around here. Probably with your tax dollars!!!

and special visas. The ones where they can't find the specific skill set in a country of 300 million people.

[StreetsOfGold]

Indians are buying up all the small town grocery stores around here. Probably with your tax dollars!!!


http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1328373/images/o-DEAL-facebook.jpg

[crimethink]

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/06/07/2017.06.07%20-%20SNAP%201_0.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk

[madfranks]

roughly $950mm, or just over 14% of the aggregate $6.6BN of food expenditures made by SNAP recipients, is spent on unnecessary, unhealthy products

I read somewhere that the "stigma" of limiting food stamp purchases to wholesome and healthy foods is a human rights violation.

[crimethink]

I read somewhere that the "stigma" of limiting food stamp purchases to wholesome and healthy foods is a human rights violation.

WIC greatly restricts what the recipient can buy. No reason not to apply the same rules to SNAP.

But yeah, I can hear the hard-leftists shrieking. Same shrieks I heard about the congenitally retarded having "the right" to reproduce.