“A tax on soda is bad policy, to say the least.”

Is a soda tax on the way from the Obama administration? The student editorial board of NC State’s Technician weighs in on the possibility.

Tax and health officials seem to think the tax proposal is a sort of win-win for health care. The concept of this idea even being considered is unfathomable and establishes a very slippery slope in the realm of taxation — what’s next, ice cream?

In sincerity, this sort of tax could be applied to just about anything: candy, doughnuts or other fatty foods. Taxing soda is a very precarious step towards a federal imposition on consumer choice. Isn’t this the sort of thing the colonists were upset about when they tossed tea into Boston Harbor?