Big Soda Responds…

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• Connor Barwin
• Courtney DuChene
• Charles D. Ellison
• Jon Geeting
• Anne Gemmell
• Jill Harkins
• Bruce Katz
• Jason Kelce
• Diana Lind
• James Peterson
• Larry Platt
• Jessica Blatt Printing
• Katherine Rapin
• Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Big Soda Responds…

A spokesman argues that our study of an anti-soda tax protest in early June was off-base of operations and unfair

Big Soda Responds…

A spokesman argues that our report of an anti-soda taxation protest in early on June was off-base of operations and unfair

Jun. 20, 2016

We take outcome with Iain Levison's characterization of our June 8 rally exterior Metropolis Hall against the mayor's tax proposal – and with the photograph he attached to his piece.

We concord with Levison that the administration used children as props to laissez passer a proposal that was much less well-nigh pre-K than advertised, only we also desire to clarify the nature of the event and the size of our coalition.

The fact of the affair is that 300 to 400 people attended the rally to clearly express their opposition to the tax. They came from many races and walks of life – from grocery store owners to Teamsters to found workers – but they were united by concern that this taxation volition impairment Philadelphia families.

Information technology's hard to become hundreds of supporters to take time off work to attend a mid-twenty-four hour period Center City, but we were able to reach this because of the outrage that Philadelphians experience about this regressive taxation on more than than one,000 common beverages.

Levison also only attended one event of a broad-ranging coalition with more than 30,000 members and 1,600 modest businesses and local organizations. Dozens of opponents of the tax testified in multiple Metropolis Council hearings, and hundreds attended an earlier rally against the proposal.

Past contrast, many fewer people attended rallies organized past the mayor to support his proposals, which match our poll results showing that 58 percent of Philadelphians oppose this tax.

Anthony Campisi is a spokesman for theNo Philly Grocery Tax Coalition.

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Source: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/big-soda-responds/