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Budget & Finance committee adopts technical fixes to proposed soda tax, continues measure for one week
Summary
The committee voted by unanimous consent to adopt technical cleanup amendments to a proposed 2¢ per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverage distributors and continued the item for one week; supporters said the tax could yield roughly $30–31 million a year for health programs, while opponents decried the measure as regressive.
On July 9, 2014, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee adopted technical cleanup amendments to a proposed ordinance that would impose a 2¢ per ounce tax on the distribution of sugar-sweetened beverages and continued the item for one week.
Supervisor Scott Wiener, a co-sponsor of the measure, said the tax is intended as a public-health price signal and estimated proceeds of "over $30,000,000 a year" would fund nutrition, physical-activity and health programs across the city. Wiener said the amendments introduced at the hearing were "technical cleanup" changes that would not alter the tax rate or how the money would be used and signaled…
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