I don't really think they aimed to make the city healthier by doing this. It's more of "look, people spend money on this constantly. Let's make up an excuse to tax them, so we can send more dollars to our coffers."
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exactly... they justify it to the media by posting obesity epidemic information and what not but in the end it is all about revenue generation at the expense of the poor.
In the hood, we refer to that as running a pimp game. Here is an interesting fact. The pimp pays the prostitute with her own money. Money that she made and gives to him. He then gives her back her own money. With the government, we do not pay taxes. They take taxes. If they take too much, they give us some of it back (with no interest). And we are ecstatic to get a refund.
lol. Yeah, i was kind of rolling my eyes when people this year (in the US) were complaining about how their return was less than previous years but didn't even look (until prompted to do so) at what their overall tax burdan was. It turned out that most of them were paying less or around the same as they had before, they just didn't notice because no one pays attention to that part of their paychecks.