Listen Now: Chicago-Area Residents No Longer Have To Pay More For Pop

When I heard about the sugar tax being discussed on NPR and in Canada I thought it was another liberal version of a carbon tax but instead on gasoline, it was against the people in general who drink soda/ pop. It's called pop here in Canada and I knew it as soda in California. I thought then, as I do now, that this is an unfair tax. If kids are going to be diabetic over one or two cans of Coke or Pepsi a day, that I blame the parents for not making sure they have enough physicals and exercise. If the kid looks like Augustus Gloop in with the Willy Wonka movies, he is predisposed to be overweight and the soda tax wont make much difference. I am 54 years old and I drink up to one litre a day of Dr. Pepper. I weigh between 160 and 185 lb over the last 20 years . I'm 5 foot 11 . I don't think I should be paying a tax on soda especially if the same price for a small drink at an average restaurants almost $2 when I can buy a 2 liter bottle at Walmart for a dollar sixty on sale . Though I walk 25,000 steps a day working for a courier service, I'm sure many of you go on the treadmill and do exercise and maintain your weight. I don't know how politicians and nieve health people came up with the idea of taxing soda with the excuse of trying to help the kids when the unintended consequence was it was bringing the food and beverage industry down. I bet the politicians in the health professionals drink alcohol and many of them are obese already and they should be doing exercise just as much as the children should be. No one says this about drinking alcohol which does convert alcohol into sugar. Though the state and federal government taxes the hell out of it already. People get fat drinking cases of beer. I see people lining up at 10 in the morning to buy alcohol in Canada and some idiots even take their kids with them. Functioning alcoholics. I'm just so glad at the social justice Warriors are losing on three fronts. They're losing on the sugar tax front, they're losing with this NFL situation and they're losing with President Trump not believing in climate change and unwilling to tax of people unfairly on junk science. I'm glad the sugar tax is being defeated in Chicago. Personally, I detest drinking. My wife and I belonged to Alcoholics Anonymous. We don't drink. My wife hasn't had a drink in 20 years. I haven't had a drink in over 12 years. Suicides and drinking are common and her family. My sister committed suicide two years ago related to depression, drinking and taking painkillers. If you have a drinking problem, seek professional help and I recommend going to Alcoholics Anonymous. Drinking or not drinking glasses of soft drinks won't make much of a difference if you are already eating too much and not working out at all.