Profs Call for Harsh Taxes on Sweet Carbonated Beverages
11th January 2012
Medical scientists in San Francisco have sent a chill wind blowing through the IT industry as they issue a call for swingeing taxes on “soda, fruit punch, sweet tea, sports drinks, and other sweetened beverages”.
A collection of health profs and other researchers led by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (associate professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at California uni’s San Francisco campus) say they have now put numbers on the horrific toll exacted as Americans poison themselves with no less than 13.8 billion gallons* of disgustful pop annually. Furthermore they say that huge numbers of lives would be saved if only the government would slap a hefty tax on the sugar-laden beverages of death – to the tune of a cent per fluid ounce.
I’d like to call for a law requiring all professors who call for taxes on other people for lifestyle choices to wear brown shirts and KGB armbands.
January 11th, 2012 at 10:50
“Sugar-laden beverages of death”? I guess when you’re of The Crust there is no rhetoric that’s too over the top.