This discussion is not about what is good or bad for you. It is a discussion about whether or not your federal government should decide that and enforce its decision at the point of a gun.
Sheesh!
Those of us who were smokers tried to warn the country about the food nazis coming for their junk food/beverages. I remember several people who denied that could ever happen. Now look, hundreds of millions of tax dollars were distributed (from smokers) and the states' social programs ballooned, and became "necessities." Same thing will happen with desserts and sweet drinks, for the children's sake of course, not to mention corn chips, potato chips, cheese curls, all the rest of the high salt snack foods.
A tax on soda? Against it.
But I’d like to see the tariffs on sugar removed as well. It’s those sugar tariffs, which the corn industry likes, that cause the price of sugar to be expensive in the US, which causes food / soda manufacturers to use the artifically cheaper hfcs to real sugar.
The article seems to be ignoring hfcs.