Viewpoint: Can U.S. local soda taxes continue to spread?
Robert Paarlberg,
Dariush Mozaffarian and
Renata Micha
Food Policy, 2017, vol. 71, issue C, 1-7
Abstract:
Taxes to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) such as soda drinks have been endorsed by the World Health Organization and are now in place in France, Hungary, and Mexico, and scheduled for Portugal, South Africa, and Great Britain. Such taxes have so far been impossible to enact in the United States at the state or federal level, but since 2014 seven local jurisdictions have put them in place. Three necessary conditions for local political enactment emerge from this recent experience: Democratic Party dominance, external financial support for pro-tax advocates, and a political message appropriate to the process (public health for ballot issues; budget revenue for city council votes). Roughly 40 percent of Americans live within local jurisdictions where the Democratic Party dominates, so room exists for local SSB taxes to continue spreading.
Keywords: Soda; Tax; City; Ballot; Health; Revenue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.05.007
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