Cut Sugar Subsidy, Don't Add A Tax - by John Nothdurft - Letters to the Editor
Cut Sugar Subsidy, Don't Add A Tax
Letter to the Editor: The Wall Street Journal
Written By: John Nothdurft
Published In: Letters to the Editor > May 2009
Publication date:
05/23/2009
Publisher: The Heartland Institute
The call by "health advocates" for a new federal "sin tax" on sugary drinks is yet another example of special interests trying to use shoddy social-engineering tax policy to grow the size of government ("Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care," U.S. News, May 12). The expansion of such taxes to every product health officials deem "harmful" is a continuation down the slippery slope. Where will it end?
It is simply wrong to use tax policy to discriminate against users of certain legal products, distorting a market already rich with both sugar-filled and sugar-free drink options.
John Nothdurft
The Heartland Institute
Chicago
This letter to the editor was originally published in The Wall Street Journal.
