Arkansas Soda Tax
The Arkansas soda tax of 1992 levied a two cents per 12oz of soda excise tax, with all the proceeds going towards the state Medicaid fund. It is still in place today.
Cry Wolf Quotes
We just feel that it is really an unnecessary tax. There may have been some problems in Medicaid, but we point to the large amounts of fraud.
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Jonathan Askins, the press secretary for Citizens Against Unfair Taxes (CAUT). Arkansas Business.
I'm not saying restaurants are going out of business because of the soda tax. I'm saying it cuts into my profits.
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Wayne Dyer, executive director of the Arkansas Hospitality Association. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
The tax took away our ability to accumulate funds to replace assets. We were strapped for cash flow.
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Tommy Lawrence, former president of Coca-Cola of Northeast Arkansas. Arkansas Business.
Citizens against Unfair Taxes, or CUT, has held protests in several Northeast Arkansas stores during the past two weeks, handing out literature that says the tax would go into the ‘black hole of government spending.’
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from “Opposition for Lawmakers Possible, Soda-Tax Foes Say”.
