NY Nanny Mayor Bloomberg Seeking Soda Tax

Mayor Mike Bloomberg faces a huge budget hole and he's now contemplating a soda tax. Gov. David Paterson floated the idea, but it got shot down. Bloomberg believes that the taxing of sugared carbonated beverages will change consumer behavior:

Mayor Bloomberg supported his health commissioner's call for a tax on non-diet sodas yesterday, and said Gov. Paterson "walked away from" his plan to implement the tax.

"It's our obligation to tell people what public health problems there are and how to solve it," Bloomberg said when asked about city Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden's article in the New England Journal of Medicine advocating a soda tax.

"All the studies show that young kids drink an enormous amount of soda, and if they drink the sodas with all the sugar in it, it adds a great deal of weight to them," he said.

The nanny staters are busy and they're not going to give up anytime soon.