KPLU Local News
(2010-10-25)
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A customer picks up a case of Diet Coke at Costco.
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
If taxes went up on soft drinks, alone, most people might not care or even notice. But, a campaign to repeal Washington's latest soft drink tax is stirring up passions by combining sodas with three other taxes. Polls show voters are likely to repeal the taxes - without knowing why they were combined. KPLU's Keith Seinfeld wanted to find out how sodas, candy, and bottled water got tossed together.
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