Sentences with phrase «like soda taxes»

I might also support incentives and disincentives that push people in the right direction, like soda taxes, although I haven't thought that through fully.

Also, you've got to love the narrator at the end who says «The government needs to trim its budget fat» — which is precisely what something like a soda tax would help do, while cutting down on obesity rates in the process.

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Beverage makers have largely weathered such taxes in places like Mexico, which introduced a soda tax in 2014, as sales of other products including water rise.

American cities like Berkeley, Boulder, Seattle, and Philadelphia have already put in place some version of the soda tax, which is aimed at reducing obesity.

That gets interpreted kind of like tantamount to the soda tax in Chicago, for me,» Maddon added.

Meanwhile, things that could address systemic problems and save the city and state real money, including public pension reform, get shouldered off the road in favor of transient quick fixes like taxes on soda and cigarettes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed decreasing the intake of such drinks among its main obesity prevention tactics in 2009, and some states and cities, like New York City and California already are thinking about such soda taxes.