{"id":3026,"date":"2010-03-09T07:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T11:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2010-03-09T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:19:20","slug":"if-persuasion-doesnt-work-raise-the-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/if-persuasion-doesnt-work-raise-the-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"If persuasion doesn’t work, raise the taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City is moving ahead in their war on junk food, with a new proposal to add a significant tax to the sales of carbonated pop<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[Mayor Michael Bloomberg] described the soda tax — equivalent to an extra eight pence on a can — as “a fix that just makes sense”, saving lives and cutting rising health care costs.<\/p>\n

“An extra 12 cents on a can of soda would raise nearly $1 billion (\u00a3663 million), allowing us to keep community health services open and teachers in the classroom,” he said on his weekly radio programme on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“And, at the same time, it would help us fight a major problem plaguing our children: obesity.”<\/p>\n

David Paterson, the mayor of New York state, has already proposed a soda tax but it was dropped last year following a public outcry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Chris Greaves for the link, who said “Let’s see now, prohibition didn’t work, so let’s try something different!”<\/p>\n

Of course, the proposed tax would be very popular in some areas: all the retailers outside NYC who would be able to reap significant additional sales to New Yorkers who didn’t want to pay the sin tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York City is moving ahead in their war on junk food, with a new proposal to add a significant tax to the sales of carbonated pop: [Mayor Michael Bloomberg] described the soda tax — equivalent to an extra eight pence on a can — as “a fix that just makes sense”, saving lives and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,74,9,13],"tags":[322,384,199,118],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-food","category-law","category-usa","tag-nannystate","tag-newyork","tag-prohibition","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-MO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}