Boulder Public Health Group Advocates Excise Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Healthy Boulder Kids has submitted to the city of Boulder, Colorado,
a draft initiative that would impose on distributors a 2-cent per ounce
excise tax on beverages that contain at least 5 grams of sweeteners per
12 fluid ounces. Pending review and approval by the city clerk, the public
health coalition would then have until June 28, 2016, to collect the requisite
number of signatures to get the measure on the November ballot.
Revenue from the proposed tax would reportedly be directed to health
and nutrition programs aimed especially at low-income residents of the
Boulder community. See Boulder Daily Camera, April 21, 2016.

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