Cook County Beverage tax starts July 1, 2017.

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Tab
Pepsi Free
Faygo

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Suburbs win again.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

This is just idiotic. All it's going to do is hurt the Mexicans working at the McDonald's in Pilsen where I get $1 large soft drinks on my drive home (and usually some sort of snacky thing like a small fries or a cone) once or twice a week.

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Fresca
Jolt
Tahitian Treat

do they formally espouse some company line where this tax is gonna help #MakeAmericaThinAgain?! i'm pretty sure bloomberg said something like that to justify his attempt at a similar tax in NYC.

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What I'm wondering is how long before people start getting worked up about it. Probably some people have completely forgotten that it even passed since it didn't go into effect immediately. From what I understand it includes the Cook County suburbs, so that has the potential to tick a lot of people off. You have to think some people will drive to other counties to get their drinks. $1.44 extra on a 12 pack of pop will add up very quickly.

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Taxing lemonade is a bit much.

Not just pop, but juice too.

They'll fail to meet their "projected" revenue and move on to the next tax/fine to "make us safer".

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Was told never would of happen under CHUY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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yeah, It's Big Brane!

That clown Toni Preckwinkle has struck again!

And what theme did she win her stirring elevation over the nice, but hapless Todd Stroger on again?

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nice but hapless?

Look, I would have voted for the guy over Toni (had I lived in the city) but hapless? Where did the $500k go?

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

He bought drinks.

I never thought he was ready for or really wanted the job. I think his greatest "sin" was that he was trying to really cover for all the old patronage county workers & profiteers living off of Madigan's and to a lesser extent, his father's coattails

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Don't talk like that about Chicago's next mayor!

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

I'd vote republican in the event she were the official Democratic nominee. Maybe even work a phone bank against that fraud

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The government agencies like Cook County and others are out of control. They don't know how to properly budget money. The bottom line is that government needs to learn to do with less when that's what regular people do all the time.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

Unlike regular people government agencies rarely ever consider the possibility of ever having less money when they think budget.

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Elections have consequences.