The city of Philadelphia was the first major city to pass a soda tax and hopefully this will help alleviate the ugly overweight syndrome of so any inner-city residents ignorant to the abuses of these drinks to their body. By a vote of 13-4 the city council decided that people who buy sugary drinks in the city of Brotherly Love will have to pay an additional 18 cents in tax for each 12-ounce can of soda and $2.16 in tax for each 12-pack purchased.
This will hit the pocketbooks of poor resident and force them to drink healthier products for them and their children whether they like it or not. Ghetto residents rallied against this tax that they said targeted them because basically they make their neighborhoods so dangerous supermarket chains and other food business ventures fear for their safety. Mexico has seen dramatic improvements and cutbacks of soda sugar dinking from the public after the national government initiated a tax on pop. Only the Middle eastern bad convenience store owners offering chips and soda open for business in these Black communities and their profits may be hit with this new brave tax on soda. Other municipalities and townships need to follow the brave actions of the city of brotherly love and tax the shit out of this junk as Soda offers nothing but obesity to addicts unable to stop drinking sugary candy or contain their amount. 
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