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A tax in the beach in Santa Cruz on Thursday, Santa Cruz’s beach ground, seven years later, the powerful beverage industry forbidden to carry out local grocery taxes as a reluctant bargaining industry.
Tax per 2 cent cent, confirmed by voters in November, is the first to be approved by MPs2018 contract. The American Beverage Association has called on the campaign against election measures in 60,000 small cities and the court in court, and urban resources are likely to be filtered.
Santa Cruz officials are preparing to hope that the state will fulfill the new taxes to other countries and cities, despite the legal uncertainty in court. The measurement aims to reduce sugar consumption, especially children and adolescents and collects money for health programs and other community initiatives.
“This stands to democracy and special interests,” he said. “This is to obtain independence to gain income for our society.”
The trading organization that representsCoca-cola, Pepsico Others said the next steps were evaluated on Wednesday.
The tax is a wide coalition, including labor unions and small businesses, “as an unfair cargo for families that combat the record high prices,” said Stephen Maviglio for the American Drinking Association.
More than a decade that more than a decade has been fighting for more than a decade, more than a decade that more than a decade that increases the risk of health care, higher prices, obesity, and stroke risk. Opposition rearresive taxes have an ineffective influence on low-income families who can give the least money and damage local enterprises.
A nearby city of Santa Cruz, Berkeley, in 2014, has passed the country’s first tax in Sugar sweetened drinks. One handful of other cities followed, including intimacySan Francisco, Oakland and AlbanyAs well asPhiladelphiaOpen Seattle and Boulder, Colorado.
No state has not confirmed sweetened beverage taxes at the state levelSome have tried.
In 2018, California MPs protected groceries from favorable action,Soda to prohibit local taxesand other sugary drinks by 2031. Exchange, lawyer group California work round tableThe size of the bulletin supported by the beverage industryIt said it would be more difficult to increase any taxes of cities and countries.
The deal was forced to leave the plans to bring Santa Cruz’s noisy drink tax. But the city’s leaders did not give up.
That same year, a city assembly and health promotion is illegal in the penalty provision of the non-profit, grocery acts from the illegal authorities to exercise their authority for local affairs. As part of the law, a chartering city of sweetened beverages, a charter city, which can be punished by losing tax revenues.
At the same time, in 2023, a state appeal, the Court of Appeals did not contradict the Constitution, but he did not judge himself. In June, the Santa Cruz City Council, election and November, approximately 32,000 voters approved him by a margin with 52 to 48.
The “No” side spent $ 2.8 million; The “yes” side spent less than $ 100,000.
Has 40 calories or more for other non-alcoholic drinkers and 12 fluid ounces of drinking taxes, sodas, ice rivers, sports drinks and 12 fluid-ounce drinkers. There is a freedom for small businesses with less than $ 500,000 in total receipts in a year.
Carina Moreno opposed the tax measure and said that Tacos Moreno should raise the prices of Moreno.
“I’m really disappointed when I heard it passes,” he said. “We are already paying high prices for sugar drink.”
However, the tax authorities say the victory of Santa Cruz is the surprising that the opposition spends.
Dr. John Maa, San Francisco Surgery and the Chairman of the American Heart Association, the Speaker of the Advisory Committee in California, said that the future of sugary drinks can mobilize the support of the chairs of lawyers, he said.
“This Soda is a great week for tax movement,” he said.
This story was first displayed Fortune.com
