Soda Tax Goal is Budgetary, Not Health

Fox and Hounds Daily
By Joel Fox
October 5, 2009

In a Fox and Hounds Daily blog post on October 5, 2009, Joel Fox questions the logic behind adding a tax to soda with the stated purpose of reducing its consumption, but with the implied purpose of generating revenue. “While raising taxes would cut consumption that means that any tax revenue attached to a product would likely fall over time,” he points out.

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