Letter+to+the+editor

Do you really that increasing the soda tax to 18 % is going to work to make more people not obese? The original tax of 4% didn’t work at all what makes you think this one will? Most soda is a dollar so let me get this straight take 18% from a dollar and it’s $.18. Really I found $.18 on the ground last week. What will happen when this tax doesn’t work? Will the government raise it to 25% and if that doesn’t work it will go higher and higher and HIGHER! It doesn’t seem to make sense what is happening. People are going to drink soda one way or another. If the government doesn’t to people to drink soda why don’t they just make it illegal? For that matter why doesn’t the government make alcohol or cigarettes illegal? Is it because they make lots of money? I’m not saying we need soda it is just that we need to worry about the serious things first. Soda doesn’t play a big part in obesity. It is because of lack of exercise, and eating at fast food places all the time. Those play big rolls in obesity not soda. You need to reword your article. **
 * Dear, Editor **