D.C. Says No to New Beverage and Container Taxes!
Tell the D.C. City Council to leave our grocery budgets alone.
Another tax in D.C. is the last thing we need.
COUNCIL MEMBERS OPPOSE SODA TAX
Washington Examiner
By: Alan Suderman
May 21, 2010
The DC City Council will not include a one-cent per ounce tax on beverages sweetened with sugar in their fiscal 2011 budget, reported Alan Suderman of the Washington Examiner on May 21, 2010. He wrote, “Several council members had a litany of complaints against Cheh’s proposal, including that the tax applies too broadly, hurts lower-income families, and hadn’t followed the typical procedural process.”
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