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Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason in the Washington Post on the myths involving soda taxes. She takes a hacksaw to paternalism, health care costs, falsehoods of high fructose corn syrup and money-grubbing politicians in one brilliant swoop.
The basic idea sounds reasonable enough. Why not have the government nudge citizens along the path to righteousness by making bad choices more expensive? But even the most avid proponents of sin taxes concede that none of the nickel-and-dime proposals on the table is large enough to discourage soda drinking. And they're not really intended to. Soda taxes, like most sin taxes, aren't...
The Soda Tax Zombies
High-fructose corn syrup is no different than ordinary sugar or honey. The body processes them all as...sugar.
You're not fat because you consume sugar in any form as part of your diet. You're fat because you go back for thirds, and in doing so you don't burn more calories than you take in. You're pathetic because you think the Government's legitimate function is to protect you from...