Sentence examples for soft taxes from inspiring English sources

He and Emanuel differ on costs, as critics like veteran police officer Rafael Yanez accuse the mayor of implementing "soft taxes" like a red-light program and speed cameras he claims have been used "as a slush fund" to divert money from minority neighborhoods to downtown development projects.

Searching for new sources of tax revenue amid a fiscal crisis, the governor proposed legalizing mixed martial arts, allowing the sale of wine in grocery stores, taxing bottled soft drinks, taxing cigarette sales on Indian reservations and deploying speed-enforcement cameras in highway work zones.

Those 35 Republican pledge-violators are hardly soft on taxes.

There are additional charges for alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, taxes and tips.

— Jeff Gordinier Food Politics Marion Nestlee notes that Coca-Cola has announced a new "global commitment to fight obesity," but charges that the effort is only "a major public relations campaign to keep vending machines in schools and head off federal, state or local soft drink taxes or soda caps," adding that "the only way Coke can really help address obesity and poor diets is to sell less soda".

Do we need junk food and soft drink taxes?

Fletcher et al. (2010) investigated the potential of soft drink taxes to combat rising levels of adolescent obesity.

In "Can Soft Drink Taxes Reduce Population Weight?" (which will be published in Contemporary Economic Policy), the authors examined how changes in states' taxation rates from 1990 to 2006 affected body mass index, a measure of body fat based on height and weight.

Thow et al. summarize many key implementation questions based on lessons from soft drink taxes in Fiji, Samoa, Nauru and French Polynesia [ 45].

The Australian Beverages Council, which represents soft-drink makers, says there is no evidence that soft-drink taxes have any impact on obesity rates.

But we do not support a soft drink tax".