Taxing soda like alcohol?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 12:09AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Citation Post, food, new rules

Via David Leonhardt column in NYT, say it isn't so!

And yet I would welcome it.  Too much soda comes into my household, the excuse being it's just so damn cheap.

Here's why:

The price has been kept unusually low.  Meat and cheese, fine enough, but soda?  Especially when water is finally getting some realistic pricing?

A good target for cash-strapped states.

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