Life in NYC (and Princeton)

Obesity tax

Governor David Paterson proposed a substantial tax on soft drinks in an effort to combat childhood obesity in the State of New York. Reducing childhood obesity is a wholly admirable goal and cigarette taxes are widely lauded as a key driver in declining smoking rates, but targeting an entire class of beverages (and eventually food products) could be quite an administrative challenge. Perhaps it would be more effective to stop subsidizing the high fructose corn syrup that make soft drinks sugary in the first place, but I digress…

Reports of my blogging retirement have been greatly exaggerated...

Notable things have occurred since my last post was published on June 3, 2007.

 

Personal events have ranged from incredibly exciting (engaged and married) to exciting (new first cousin once removed, new dog, new house, new car) to mundane (new commute, renewed exposure to gasoline prices) to scary (new dog has a broken leg) to quite scary (mugged at gunpoint). Public events have also been exciting (new president) and scary (only my grandmother can remember a worse economic environment). 

 

Despite the occurrence of such highly bloggable events, I also got away from writing this blog.

 

I will attempt to write more often.