There's also evidence of longer-term consumption trends. An analysis of Seattle's soda tax, published in December 2021, found that two years after its implementation, there was a 23% drop in grams of sugar sold through taxed drinks compared with sales of those products in Portland, where there was no soda tax…
Sunday, November 13, 2022
‘This industry will stop at nothing’: big soda’s fight to ban taxes on sugary drinks
In Philadelphia, which has taxed sweetened beverages since 2017, the revenues have helped the region add jobs, according to a 2021 Rutgers University study, mostly because the program has funded childcare that allows parents to go back to work.
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