date:Jul 31, 2014
cise taxes, typically on the order of a penny per ounce. In November, residents of San Francisco will vote on a ballot question calling for a two-cent-per-ounce tax on soda and other sugar drinks, and Berkeley, Calif., will vote on a proposed one-cent-per-ounce tax. In Mexico, a peso-per-liter tax on sugar drinks is credited with causing an immediate five percent drop in soda consumption in that country.
States and local governments need money to help prevent and treat soda-related diseases, an