News, San Francisco City By Bay May Put Tax On Coke, Pepsi. (health, syrup)

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Mayor Gavin Newsom wants large grocery stores to help fight obesity by paying fees on sodas and other beverages they sell in San Francisco.

Newsom has asked his staff to prepare a law that would charge retail chains for stocking Coke, Pepsi and other drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.

http://www.wsmv.com/health/14880398/detail.html

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Why don't they just tax their people by the pound and be done with it? That will slim the porkier ones down, pronto.