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Date Posted: 02:53:06 06/02/02 Sun
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Aaaaaarrrrfg!@@!!! The Veeckster
's message, "Coffee targeted as Seattle tax source !@$%#@!!!@!@!!" on 20:59:59 06/01/02 Sat
>OK I am SERIOUSLY Pissed!!!
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>Coffee targeted as Seattle tax source
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>Child-care advocates push for 10-cent tax
>Starbucks employee Heather Viall scoops coffee beans
>for a customer's order while manager Geral Kyle, left,
>chats with another customer at Starbucks Coffee Co.'s
>original store at Pike Place Market in Seattle.
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>ASSOCIATED PRESS
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>SEATTLE, June 1 — A proposed tax could hit
>Seattleites where it really hurts: their coffee mugs.
>A group of child-care advocates, seeking more money
>for early education, filed an initiative Friday that
>would place a 10-cent city tax on Seattle’s lifeblood
>- espresso drinks.
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> ‘Coffee, in a way, it’s kind of a luxury item. As
>long as the money went to the programs it was supposed
>to, I would support it.’
>— PATTY GRAZINI
>Seattle resident BUT IN Seattle, where voters
>have already voted to tax tobacco, meals and hotel
>rooms, among other things, initial word of the
>proposal caused barely a jolt among the area’s latte
>lovers.
> “Coffee, in a way, it’s kind of a luxury item,”
>said Patty Grazini, who frequents the Diva Espresso
>Bar in Seattle’s Greenwood district. “As long as the
>money went to the programs it was supposed to, I would
>support it.”
> The Early Learning and Care Committee, which is
>made up of parents, teachers and child-care directors,
>expects the tax would raise $7 million to $10 million
>a year in this coffee-addicted city.
> The money would be used to increase wages for
>child-care teachers, help low- and middle-income
>families obtain quality child care and increase the
>amount of high-quality care available in Seattle, said
>Lisa Moy, campaign manager of the initiative.
> The committee has until early August to collect
>the 17,228 valid signatures needed to get the
>initiative on November’s ballot.
> Melissa Petersen, barista at Diva Espresso,
>wasn’t so sure the initiative was a good idea. Another
>10 cents is a lot to ask for a drink that already can
>cost $3 to $4, she said.
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> “They’ve got a smoking tax, regular taxes,
>why not a yuppie tax?” Petersen said sarcastically.
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>GUARANTEED INCOME SOURCE
> Grazini, 50, averages about two cappuccinos a
>day and has no problem flipping the bistro an extra
>couple of dimes. The tax would bring the cost of her
>daily caffeine dosage to about $4.20, or an additional
>$73 a year.
> Under the plan, drip coffee would not be taxed.
> Moy said taxing espresso drinks is a guaranteed
>source of income in Seattle, where many residents
>can’t get through the day without a caffeine hit.
> “We know that the city of Seattle voters are
>dedicated to their children,” Moy said. “This is one
>way they can enable children more access to quality
>pre-kindergarten care.”
> Since the tax would apply to businesses that
>gross more than $50,000 annually, Moy said Starbucks
>and Tully’s Coffee — Seattle’s main coffee purveyors —
>have been informed of the group’s plan.
> In a prepared statement, Starbucks said the
>company did not understand why the group “would
>recommend an additional consumer tax on espresso
>beverages, or any other single consumer product, to
>fund this initiative.”
> Company spokeswoman Audrey Lincoff would not
>comment further.
> The tax would do little to affect business at
>Diva Espresso’s four locations in Seattle, manager
>Stephen Johnson said.
> “Regular customers would initially notice, but
>they would adapt to it very readily,” Johnson said. “I
>think coffee’s a pretty strong drug. People need their
>caffeine.”
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It sounds like something they would do in California! LOL
They are raising the price of cigs again by 50 cents a pack to top the last state tax raise of 85 cents a pack.
We have magazine and junk food taxes etc. etc. etc.
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