[FRIAM] Santa Fe's Sugar Tax

[Gillian Densmore]

As someone that's currently...Financially Challenged. All this crap adds
up, and as you note it's to easy to interpert how you want.
For example: I am (famously?) a tea lover. I love all kinds of tea,
medically helpful, just fun etc. Why do I mention that? How likely would
they decide my 2-3buck honey that makes fucking awsome mid afternoon tea
that's refreshing suddenly jump to 4-5 dollars?
Well 5 bucks to me

Besides if they REELY want free kick ass education (Great please PLEASE do)
Their might be better ways to go. Grocery stores (looking at you smiths)
charge out the ass for healthy fun to eat food.For example ERMG It's so fun
and nice to have fruits(Grapes and strawberries) that in my famly I'm
infamously for loving. Thouse have sugers in them that are good for you(no
idea how that works).As you point out the wording leaves it open to the
Martinez's of the world to say: gee that 2buck a bag of graps is now I duno
5bucks!
for those keeping tabs that'd be a tank of gas between the honey and
fruits. Ouch.

I'm skeptical yet another tax will help anything.
Nickle and diming people does very little to help anyone. And frankly just
makes people mad and wonder where all that's going.

I wholy agree Santa Fe needs a fun kick ass research school And have tried
to make one twice going on third go.
The poloticing around education in this city and state like I said to Edd
and You made me wonder if I was on drugs LOL  Or maybe they were.

Sufficed to say I doubt this'll help. Their needs to be a plan and the city
definatly needs to do somethings to bring in money. I'm just skeptical this
is the way to go.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

> For the FRIAMers in Santa Fe who might be interested in the sugar-tax
> vote....
>
> There's an interesting issue coming up on a May 2nd city ballot here in
> Santa Fe: Whether the city can tax drinks with sugar. I may have a short
> letter running in The New Mexican this week, but here is the link to "Sugar
> Tax initiative built with a faulty scaffold"
> http://tiny.cc/SugarTaxOpEd
>
> TJ
> <http://tiny.cc/SugarTaxOpEd>
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