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Taxing Sugar to Fund a City

Posted May 25th, 2016 at 11:39 am (UTC-4)
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The tax is being pitched as one that will pay for services for the city’s needy, and especially children — community schools, universal prekindergarten (which has overwhelming support), parks, recreation centers, libraries — rather than as one that will discourage people from consuming a damaging product.