The Seattle soda tax will work about the way a soda tax in Philly worked out.

The distributors will pass it on to the retailers. The retailers will pass it on to the consumers. The consumers will pass on it and buy their sodas out of town.

Because there aren't enough soda sales to keep the soda delivery drivers busy, the distributors will cut their hours or lay them off.

Seattle won't see the tax revenue it was hoping for, so it will snivel about greedy distributors trying to make a profit and not being worried about fat kids.

That site has a terrible track record, it's for hipster douchebag conspiracy fucktards......predicting 8 of the last zero economic collapses.

Sugar has caused more cavities than all drugs combined, some day they will try to make sugar a scheduled 4 drug.

I'm amazed that Seattle's City Council can be so stupid. Do they really think the tax won't have an effect on purchases within the city, when consumers can just stock up on soda whenever they drive past the city limit boundary? Just like the Seattle gun ammo tax, everyone buys their ammo out of town.

Just as the high taxes on cigarettes doesn't affect me, the soda tax won't either, because I don't live in Seattle and don't often drink soda. Now the high WA state taxes on alcohol, that is another matter altogether . . .

A 24oz fruity Frappychino has twice the calories of a 24oz soda.

Gatorade and Red Bull (among others) will have the tax applied as well.