Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Couric Bubbly Over Soda Tax, Fails to Consider Idea Obnoxious to Average Americans

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"It's the most explosive moment for the soda industry since the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment," CBS's Katie Couric quipped of a proposed federal soda tax in her September 18 Notebook video on CBSNews.com.

While careful not to explicitly endorse a proposed one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks, Couric hinted that taxing sodas could help curb obesity, because, after all,

"some lawmakers say taxes on cigarettes have reduced smoking and raised revenues."

[Do you think this country will ever again ask if extortion is right vs. merely if it works?]

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