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Article: Taxing Americans into good health.(Inside Track)(tax on soft drinks)
- Article from:
- The New American
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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More U.S. health experts have added their voices to the chorus calling for a tax on soft drinks designed to discourage consumption, Reuters reported on September 16.
New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley, nutritionist Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, obesity expert Kelly Brownell from Yale University in Connecticut, and others made their proposal in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"We propose an excise tax of one percent per ounce for any beverages that have any added caloric sweetener," they wrote. "Much as taxes on tobacco products are routine at both state and federal levels because they generate revenue ...