Sin tax

Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) have now been implemented in at least four cities, San Francisco, Seattle, Oakland, and the largest, Philadelphia.

A quick update on Philidelphia’s tax on sugary beverages, the “soda tax.” Not the announcement by the American College of Pediatricians that those sugary beverages were bad for children and should be avoided, but the soda tax’s changing political

About two months ago a tax was placed on soda, sugary and diet, in Philadelphia; and just as the sun always rises, another study has appeared to describe the impact of the tax.