Soda tax proposal: A swing and miss from the start
It is with much satisfaction that I thank the city of Santa Fe working class voters for soundly defeating the proposed sugar tax on beverages (“Soda tax fizzles,” May 3). There was always something irreconcilable about even proposing to fund a program based on money raised by an activity one claims to want to stamp out.
Either you end up with a revenue source that isn’t sustainable, or you end up with a program that relies on the continuation of an activity you claim to despise in order to work. Proponents of such a tax adopted an incoherent, self-contradictory and unfair position. Government overreach and arbitrary social engineering was rejected — for now.