Taxing soda like alcohol?

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.

Comments

[Lexington Green]

The bad effects of high fructose corn syrup are too little known. I have never met a tax i didn't hate. But taxing soda pop would be good, particularly if it had enough bite to it to reduce consumption.

[large]

There's an alternative . . I don't buy it . . thus, I don't drink it . .