Childhood obesity is truly an epidemic. More than one in six children in the United States are obese, a rate that has tripled in the past 30 years...a recent poll commissioned by The Boston Foundation and NEHI as part of their Healthy People/Healthy Economy coalition’s work found that 69 percent of Massachusetts voters would support applying the state sales tax to soda and candy (these items are currently exempt) if the revenues from the tax were used to fund childhood obesity reduction efforts...
...Our children deserve a healthy future and taxing SSBs is one important way to help ensure this. These polls suggest that the public thinks so as well.
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