Philadelphia City Council Council in the Media, 15 May 2016

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From YouTube: 6ABC Inside Story Panel Discussion on on Proposed Sugar Beverage Tax -5-15-2016

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Panelist discuss the proposed Sugary Beverage Tax and other issues relating to the FY2017 Budget on 6ABC's Inside Story, aired May 15, 2016.

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A

Town, this is what I heard. Something is passing. It's not three I'm thinking one. That's me between what did you guys hear? I, don't.

B

See that I think the big soda the villains can't allow that, because it with them it's not about the amount of money and lower sales they're being made a pariah at Berkeley already, did it if another city does it across the country you're going to see a bunch of people? Do it that's what it's about to.

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Yeah because I also a precedent right, it's also a precedent. If, let's say it's one right, then it becomes to that become.

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For more, that's the starting point and if people like pre-k, maybe they'll start to say, but.

A

So far, we've only seen three council members come out and say they're not doing it and I didn't hear him suggest that people are absolutely against it. The more I talk to people more, it sounds like there. This could pass. It won't be unanimous, but this could get through in.

D

The fact of the matter is councilman Clark, the fact that he broached it. He didn't put it off the table. We said how about a half cent tax? How about a course in means I think something's going to happen. Eighty percent of the voters in Philadelphia I think the last time when mayor Kenny ran in the primary voted for this pre-k commission to study. There is nothing more important I think around this table. We would agree then pre-k to get people out of poverty into schools in a job that all starts there.

D

Something is going to happen, Claire.

A

Out there a lot questions that are being raised, that I thought were interesting on his part, who gets to do the work on the parts on the parks? How many kids get seats? Where do those season belong? What are they going to be taught like? These are a lot of questions as you get down a couple of weeks out from voting well.

E

There already is pre-k in the school district there about 9,000 CSI believe. Why are we not going through the school district.

A

Actually, a lack.

E

Of it's a lack of a vote of confidence in the school district to be able to pull this off, but I do think that get just getting back to I. Think Dom's right there. Here the industry is going to pull out all the stops to try and stop anything asking if something I think your instinct is right, something will pass something modest will pass. I suspect the beverage industry will then sue basis.

C

They work that's.

E

Right and based on this, this idea that it's really a back door sales tax, which you need the legislature for it's.

D

Interesting that, early speaking, it's not a tax on the people drinking the soda and the sugary beverages, its attacks on the distributors and not everywhere, have they passed on the full tax to the end user. They.

A

Will hear about that? Is your past the whole thing on and you make my soda so expensive that I don't buy it. How do you not cut off your nose to spite your face? That's on a little bit so I'm mad about it, but I buy.

B

Your soda well I think it's something else, though column in The Daily, News, recently sued by cops. He made the point so does already down health conscious people are not drinking soda I, don't remember the last soda that I had literally and the diet. Soda thing hasn't, helped so they're afraid they're going to be made ultimately into a villain, but they support.

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They can do what they do with alcohol right. You don't have to buy it into city and go somewhere else about it, but here's by both you.

B

Know yeah, but you know, there's a lot of pain with cigarettes. They still made a lot of.

D

Elemental not.

B

Everybody lives on a border good over the course of time. They.

D

Forget about nope any other taxes. You have to pay here's a text. You don't have to pee. Well, don't drink the soda! Sorry, it's easier said than done, but there.

E

Is a but but there is I, think one of the things that Clark is hearing, especially from african-american members of council that fit that there is a regressive nature to this.

C

Bernie Sanders and Mark even said it in an earlier announcement when right when there was discussions about the three cents right, you.

A

Know what do you think? What I also heard is they might do the sugary tags, but something else because they he he was flat-out. We support the idea of pre-k, so you got to pay for it somewhere else, where's somewhere else, yeah.

E

Well, first of all, I keep going back to the issue of. Why are we taxing in a fool with a four billion dollar budget? Why are we taxing anything? Why can't we make elect meters who make the hard political choices about what to actually fund? We didn't have this.

E

We just had a mayor's race and we didn't have the discussion about how you're going to pay yet Kenny talk about pre-k, but if you remember his answer to how you're going to pay for it was I'm gonna do zero based budgeting and that fell by the wayside, which which was supposed to lead all these savings. Well,.

A

Funny thing is that's exactly what Councilwoman Sanchez is also saying: go, find it in the budget. That's.

B

When she's a very progressive member of council right up there, the.

C

Most forget to say: go to Harrisburg because that's not going to.

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Could say is that if Hillary Clinton wins she's pro soda tax, pro PTIN, a pre-k daddy.

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Baby admission to a national so did that guy.

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They do a grant program, a blog without.

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