Poll finds support for soda tax
The Boston Globe
May 11, 2011
In the past three years, Governor Deval Patrick has proposed applying the state sales tax to soda and candy, a measure aimed at raising revenue and curbing consumption of products that researchers tie to rising obesity rates among the state’s adults and children. Each time, lawmakers refused to go along...
Sixty-nine percent of Massachusetts voters would support the tax, if the money raised were used to support local schools or programs to reduce obesity in children, according to a new poll commissioned by the foundation and NEHI, a national health policy institute based in Cambridge.
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