Ordo Mallus wrote:i am 100% certain that my US gov teacher is smarter than you in this field, and when i asked this if this would be classified as a communist bill, he agreed. communism is the complete and total control of every aspect of life. eating candy and other such things happen to be a small aspect of life that is trying to be influenced by the government. this is communism. congrads, did you pass US gov?
Your government teacher is utterly incompetent and ought to be fired.
As for a soda tax, I say get rid of subsidies first, but that's not likely to happen.
As long as they aren't tying the tax directly to a program, making said program dependent upon the tax (as my state is doing with cigarette taxes funding health care for all children in the state), I'm fine with it, as long as the tax is reasonable (say, 2 cents per liter)