After being flatly dismissed at the federal level, the contentious soda tax proposal has cropped up in rhetoric in a number of states across the country. New Yorkers sent a strong message to Governor David Paterson last year after he proposed the idea. They told him they didn’t want another tax on their groceries. And according to a poll released by Siena College yesterday, New Yorkers haven’t given up their opinion that discriminatory taxes on items in the grocery cart are unfair, untimely and unwanted.
“Voters are opposed to the Governor’s proposed tax on soda and other sugared beverages by a margin of 59 percent to 38 percent. While Democrats and New York City voters are closely divided on this issue, it is overwhelmingly opposed by Republican, independents, downstate suburbanites and upstaters,” Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said in a press release about the poll.
The soda tax is part of the Governor’s budget proposal. Health concerns are supposedly the driving force for the taxes. However, the motives are painfully transparent: closing the budget gap. This disingenuous attempt to raise revenue is not lost on voters in New York who understand that the proposed tax is little more than a money grab.
For more information about the tax and what you can do to take action, check in with the New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes.
February 25, 2010
i vote no on beverage tax.
March 8, 2010
I SAY NO TO BEVERAGE TAXES TO AND I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO LEAVE COKE ALONE CAUSE THATS ALL MY FAMILY DRINKS AS FAR AS GUIDE LINES GOES MY KIDS ARE VERY HEALTHY THEY DRINK COKE INSTED OF WATER WE GO THREW 24 PCK IN A DAY AND WERE VERY HEALTHY SO LEAVE COKE ALONE I GREW UP ON IT IM FINE THANK YOU
SINCERLY A SERCIOUS COKE DRINKER BRENDA MURPHY AND FAMILY
PS BRING BLACKCHERRY VANILLA BACK
March 15, 2010
just another way to get your money. Get this idea out of your head. Lay off some state workers and cut their retirements.