Matthew Yglesias » Home Page: "Via Ezra Klein, a RAND study of the impact of price changes on body-mass index indicates a modest impact. The implications for a soda tax? Ezra says “whether or not soda taxes are a good idea for raising revenue, they’re not likely to do a tremendous amount to change the national waistline.”
I’m not too saddened by the result, because as I’ve been saying the right way to think of public health taxes is as a revenue measure:"
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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