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NEWS ABOUT: soda tax

soda tax stories: 8 news summaries

Soda Tax
Threat a Boon for Food Lobbyists

Industry pours millions into fight against it

Nov 5, 09 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Capitol Hill’s flirtation with a national excise tax on sugary drinks has been good for someone: food lobbyists. Soda makers, supermarkets, and fast-food restaurants have spent more than $24 million fighting the tax, the Huffington Post reports. “We are reacting to the situation we find ourselves in,"... More »

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Pepsi • lobbyist • fast food industry • lobbyists • advertising campaign • Coca-Cola Co • soda tax • Americans Against Food Taxes

OPINION

 Soda Tax Deserves to Fizzle 

It won't help fat people, or poor people, but will line gov't coffers

Sep 30, 09 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taxing soda is at best a stupid idea and at worst a cynical ploy by a money-grubbing government, writes Katherine Mangu-Ward for Reason. Here's why:
  • Sin taxes don't work: "None of the nickel-and-dime proposals on the table is large enough to discourage soda drinking," Mangu-Ward writes.
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obesity • health care costs • budget • regressive tax • soda tax • Katherine Mangu-Ward • high-fructose corn syrup

OPINION

 'Fat Tax' Is Really 
 a Poor Tax 


Sep 22, 09 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Congress contemplating a trillion dollar health care bill, the idea of the “fat tax” has come back into vogue as a way to slim down Americans. Supporters say junk food is every bit the addictive drug that cigarettes are, designed by food scientists to be “hyperpalatable,”... More »

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junk food • healthy eating • food science • soda tax • fat tax

 Health Experts 
 Call for Soda Tax 

Critics say it won't reduce obesity

Sep 17, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Health experts say a tax on sugary sodas would take a big bite out of the obesity epidemic, ABC News reports. Taxing "sugar-sweetened beverages is really a double-win," said the co-author of a new paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "We can raise much-needed... More »

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obesity epidemic • public health • beverages • sugar • healthy eating • soda tax

OPINION

 Soda Tax Makes Good Sense 


May 20, 09 10:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The soda tax is a great idea, and its probable death at the hands of lobbyists serves to highlight all the problems with our tax system, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The current system doesn’t raise enough money, and it’s “complex in all the... More »

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obesity • health care costs • taxes • diabetes • public health • soda • sugar • lobbyists • corn syrup • soda tax

 Congress Weighs Soda Tax 

A few cents on every can could improve health

May 12, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - With health care reform expected to run the government around $1.2 trillion, Congress is looking for ways to pay for it. A new idea bouncing around Capitol Hill is a soda tax, reports the Wall Street Journal. “Soda is clearly one of the most harmful products in the... More »

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obesity • Congress • health care costs • taxes • soda • sugar • Jay-ZTV • soda tax

OPINION

 Tax Soda: It's the New Tobacco 

Less obese, less diabetic America just a couple of laws away

Dec 18, 08 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The cigarette tax "was the biggest health care breakthrough in the last 40 years in the United States," and its successor may be the 18% tax on non-diet soda New York Gov. David Patterson is pitching, writes Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. Not only... More »

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obesity • taxes • tobacco • soda • cigarette tax • David Paterson • Nicholas Kristof • soda tax

NY Guv Seeks 'Obesity Tax'
on Soft Drinks

Tax on 'liquid candy' would raise $404M

Dec 15, 08 8:50 AM CST
(Newser) - New Yorkers with a hankering for the “Real Thing” may be paying 15% extra if lawmakers pass Gov. David Paterson's proposal to add an “obesity tax” on non-diet soda, reports the New York Daily News. The state’s doctors said the move—which could raise $404 million—would... More »

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obesity • taxes • Coca Cola • David Paterson • soft drinks • soda tax

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