We don't need any more taxes. Why do you people need the government to help keep you safe and make your decisions for you. They already dont spend the taxes they collect correctly. If people want to drink two 2 liters of coca cola let them drink two 2 liters of coca cola. Everything is expensive enough. Anyway to collect more taxes. So we can just give away the money to the next big crisis. I hate that every year we get more and more rules and laws. Most of us just want to be left alone. Stop being the great idea fairy. A tax won't stop people. Maybe if the government actually put out the information on how dangerous stuff is and not paid doctors to say what they needed them to say people wouldn't be addicted to sugar. And the health care system is broken. Anything big brother touches is broken. Our roads, our schools, Healthcare, bank system it's all broken you got cdc and epa making regulations we have to follow. Half out state can't have fires in there backyards. It should of never been based off of the city or town you live but by how much space such as 75 feet between your house and the next building. They we also limit livestock. They say we need bees but the towns want 1 acre of land per beehive if you keep them. Bees don't need an acre of land. We give the government an inch and they take a mile. If we use your logic on penalizing people. It will move on to candy bars and snacks and food eventually. You are worried about sugary drinks but not about the hundreds of cannabis shops popping up everywhere. The nasty smelling air I have to explain to my children what it is. That I can't go to a fair with out it smelling like weed. My children's football games smells snoop dog just pulled up on his bus. Fight the better fights. Pick up a history book. Read about the revolutionary war. Go to lexington and concord. Read the bill of rights the constitution and the declaration of independence. When you are done with that read our states constitution. The first article gives us the right to defending our lives, liberties, property, safety and happiness.