[FRIAM] Santa Fe's Sugar Tax

[Tom Johnson]

The issue is refined sugars added into products, Gil.  I'm sure your grapes
and strawberries are safe.
T.


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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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