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Can a soda tax really improve public health?

Posted on: November 25, 2019

Source: The Week

They’re cloyingly sweet, nutritionally empty — and, increasingly, subject to taxation. More than 35 countries and seven cities in the U.S. — starting with Berkeley, California, in 2015 — now impose a tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages, and several more places are considering it.

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