Mayor Bloomberg call your office: "Perhaps our city governments should get their own houses in order before dictating to us what we should and shouldn't buy."

http://www.iwf.org/news/2789517/It's-How-We-Live,-Not-What-We-Buy;-Why-Soft-Drink-Taxes-Won't-Work--

It's How We Live, Not What We Buy; Why Soft Drink Taxes Won't Work

Pasadena Star-News

LANE SCOTT

"Advocates of the soda tax are applauding two California cities set to vote on a new one-cent per ounce tax on soda, which they say will help to reduce childhood obesity. Like most California moms, I find this argument tempting: It is just a few pennies, after all. I want to help kids make healthy choices. But study after study has proven that soda taxes are a completely ineffective weapon in the fight against obesity.
.................




Only a generation ago, 75 percent of school-aged children played outside daily. A generation before that, parents thought nothing of sending their kids out unsupervised for long summer days to be welcomed home again only when the street lights came on. It is easy to blame parents for the nation's childhood obesity problem, but have you been outside lately? The closest big city to me is Stockton, which filed for bankruptcy in June and boasts one of the top ten highest violent crime rates in the nation.I do not blame parents for barricading their children indoors all day long if Stockton is waiting outside for them.

Perhaps our city governments should get their own houses in order before dictating to us what we should and shouldn't buy."