Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
For San Francisco, a place where tofu has its own festival and plastic bags have been banned for half a decade, it almost seems late for government officials to be entering the soda-tax wars. But on Tuesday, a city legislator will introduce a bill to put a sugary-drink levy on the ballot in November 2014.
Supervisor Scott Wiener, one of the city?s 11 non-partisan legislators, will present a proposal to tax sodas and other sweetened beverages at a rate of two cents per ounce. That number was inspired by studies like a 2010 Harvard paper, which showed significant decreases in the sale of sugary drinks with price hikes in the neighborhood of 35%. Under the measure, a $1.60 bottle of soda would set the buyer back an extra 25%.
http://nation.time.com/2013/10/29/s...-proposes-soda-tax-to-fight-obesity-diabetes/
Supervisor Scott Wiener, one of the city?s 11 non-partisan legislators, will present a proposal to tax sodas and other sweetened beverages at a rate of two cents per ounce. That number was inspired by studies like a 2010 Harvard paper, which showed significant decreases in the sale of sugary drinks with price hikes in the neighborhood of 35%. Under the measure, a $1.60 bottle of soda would set the buyer back an extra 25%.
http://nation.time.com/2013/10/29/s...-proposes-soda-tax-to-fight-obesity-diabetes/