Voters in three California cities and one in Colorado will decide next month whether to slap a special tax on sugary drinks like soda and sports thirst-quenchers after costly, high-stakes ...

A tax on sweetened beverages harms businesses and achieves none of its goals. Philadelphia’s outlandish soda tax is what Democratic-party politics looks like when it lets its freak flag fly.

Philadelphia’s soda tax, the first in a major American city, aims to curb sales by adding 1.5 cents per ounce to distributors’ costs for sodas, energy drinks, mixers, and other sugary beverages.

Philadelphians are experiencing considerable sticker shock as the prices of their favorite beverages skyrocket because of the largest soda tax in ... city in the United States with just over ...

An analysis of Philadelphia’s sweet-drink “sin tax” finds a flaw in the system: Many people simply drive beyond city limits to buy their pop. Soda taxes turn out to be very effective at ...

Knowing this, governments use taxes to encourage or discourage behavior. A quick update on Philidelphia’s tax on sugary beverages, the “soda tax.” Not the announcement by the American College of ...

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