Another example of Progressives trying to make people do what they want.
Via Huffington Post:
I love the Bern. I even feel the Bern occasionally. But I’m afraid he unwittingly stumbled into a sticky Big Soda trap last week when he declined to support the soda tax that Philadelphia’s popular mayor Jim Kenney is fighting for.
“It would be regressive and hurt poor people,“ Bernie said, ignoring the fact that sugary beverages themselves disproportionately hurt low-income, predominantly minority communities. The beverage industry has made a fortune enticing impressionable young children to become literally addicted to their products before they’re old enough to realize that drinking the stuff is putting them on the fast track to obesity and diabetes.