by Bob Walsh
The legislature of the formerly great state of California is about to make California safe from the danger of sugar.
They want to heavily tax sugar sweetened drinks, prohibit the sale of larger-than 16 ounce sugared drink in food service and restaurant settings and (depending on whose noise you believe) prohibit promotional pricing of sugar sweetened drinks in retail settings.
Similar stupidity was attempted in New York state a few years back. The courts said the state did not have the authority to take the action.
The current notion, not yet on paper, is to tax sugared drinks 2 cents per fluid ounce in addition to whatever other taxes and costs might be there already.
David Chiu, one of the legislators (from SF) pimping this, has said that the idea is to force consumers to "think twice" about their choices.
In CA it is specifically illegal for local jurisdictions to impose soda taxes. That doesn't mean the state can't.
And these are the dumb fucks that we keep re-electing to run our state.
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