th is a major killer, and it will kill these young children unless we do something.
i spent 30 years taking care of this problem. > this is the amount of sugar that your child or you eat when you drink one can of soda a day for a year. leading the charge, the richmond city councilman. The fight over a soda tax went down to health and higher taxes. > the american beverage association set up meetings to fight the tax. > because it is a tax on poor people let's not call it a sugar tax, but it is a tax on poor people of the.
and i mean suffering by spending money that we don't have because we don't have jobs.
it is us that will suffer in richmond, and everybody else will be good. but opponents don't like the idea of another tax. like the cigarette tax it would be a deterrent and reduce the amount of sugar that leads to obesity, type 2 diabeteses and heart attacks. > his plan is to put a tax on sugar and other soda drink that would cost another penny per ounce. so, you are not looking at this as a government prescription. > reporter: we went in and asked for 16 ounce, they gave us a 21 ounce, said it was 16. that was the size of the popcorn that i used to get, not the drink. and what's likely to happen is, you'll drink one and not the other. if you want to order 32 ounces of soda, in a restaurant, that we supervise, they must give you two 16 ounce glasses. > reporter: shouldn't the government stay out - > all we're doing here is educating. as long as they spell your name right, it's good publicity. > i don't know if those are derogatory terms. i wake up this morning and i read nanny mike and i read soda scrooge. > and i traveled down to city hall today in new york to talk to mayor bloomberg about the firestorm he created and the critics who call him the nanny mayor. but mayor bloomberg says stud dills show we're a lot less likely to do that. Instead of buying one soda, you could buy two. Or the obesity index for people who are deprived of soda or their access to soda is like some how complicated it decreases right point zero one percent there's the fact that this really isn't about soda it's about the government telling us for last twenty years that we should carb load at every meal and just which is like eating garbage all day that we can't burn off you know and even the calorie counts which you like poor people who are the targets of these kinds of food policies actually when they see those higher calorie counts they buy them because they want to get as much bang for their buck when they go out to a restaurant so they're actually more interesting story guys and i you know i just fully support you know being transparent and the customers yeah the current to all the information out there giving the customers that choice and i'm a big fan of giving restaurateurs the choice as well personally and you know in these stories about i think three of the stories of everybody on span they're talking about big of an inconvenience this is to restaurants and he did months they were getti