Who will be most affected by a tax increase on juice drinks and soda?
A. A beverage tax increase will have a disproportionate impact on those who can least afford to pay the higher costs, especially middle- and lower-income New Yorkers. New York families already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation, and are struggling in this difficult economy. There could not be a worse time to ask them to pay more for the products they consume. Quotes “The tax would pull more money out of taxpayers’ hands in order to prop up a broken and bloated government budget. ” —John Nothdurft, 10/24/09 “I read in one of the news accounts that [Gov. Paterson is] proposing a soda tax again…The bottom line should be, as we go through these discussions, no new taxes, no new fees.” —Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R-LI), from NY Post ‘Fizzy fit over ‘tax’ on sodas’, 10/22/09 “I am appalled by the comparison of cigarette smoking to soft drink consumption by misguided pundits and advocates…An analogy such as this is an outrage that cancer researchers should denounce as a triv
