What The Soda Tax Means For Consumers By Brian Gale

Miguel's Response "Taxing with a purpose can make all the difference in how society thinks about whether giving tax makes for good policy" (10). According to, "What the Soda Tax Means for Consumers," by Brian Gale, he argues that taxing without knowing why, can make society think it is a wrong idea, but while knowing why taxing is beneficial, would make society think it is a good thing. While one may find it hard to argue that taxing sugary drinks, especially soda, should be implemented, because soda taxes can affect sales; in reality, sugary beverages must not be taxed due to the fact that it will not reduce the number of purchases and will not protect people from harmful diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Taxes will not be beneficial to soda and other sugary beverages. To begin with, …show more content…
This quote demonstrates that in order to see the number of purchases of sugary drinks to drop significantly enough to be relevant, taxing sugary drinks should be working. As a result, the number of sales of these drinks have still remain constant as before when taxes were not implemented yet. In the same way, people believe that this will help reduce the risk of getting diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes. Simply, this is not that case. In the article, "What the Soda Tax Means for Consumers," by Brian Gale, he states, "... taxes are not necessarily the best or most progressive way to help people protect themselves" (11). In other words, taxing sugary drinks will not be beneficial to one's heath. People will still buy these drinks even if the cost rises. Furthermore, obesity and diabetes are highly treatable diseases and can be controlled. On the other hand, people think that if they need have to pay more for soda and other sugary drinks then they would not buy them. In the article by Alexandra Sifferlan, "Do Soda Taxes Really Work?," she states, "They found that one year