Viewpoint: Can U.S. local soda taxes continue to spread? |
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| Institution: | 1. Harvard Kennedy School, United States;2. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, United States;4. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/La Paz Health Research Institute, CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain;5. Department of Medicine, Area of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain;1. National Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, Santiago, Chile;2. Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, United States;3. Carolina Population Center and Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, United States;1. School of Public Finance and Public Administration, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, 2800 Wenxiang Road, Shanghai, China;2. School of Public Finance and Taxation, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China;3. Department of Economics and Finance, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC), Milano, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Taxes to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) such as soda drinks have been endorsed by the World Health Organization and are now in place in France, Hungary, and Mexico, and scheduled for Portugal, South Africa, and Great Britain. Such taxes have so far been impossible to enact in the United States at the state or federal level, but since 2014 seven local jurisdictions have put them in place. Three necessary conditions for local political enactment emerge from this recent experience: Democratic Party dominance, external financial support for pro-tax advocates, and a political message appropriate to the process (public health for ballot issues; budget revenue for city council votes). Roughly 40 percent of Americans live within local jurisdictions where the Democratic Party dominates, so room exists for local SSB taxes to continue spreading. |
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| Keywords: | Soda Tax City Ballot Health Revenue |
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