So now they're thinking about taxing soft drinks because the sugar makes people fat. That's really stupid. The role of government is to protect us and provide services. THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IS NOT TO PROTECT US FROM OURSELVES! What right does the government have to try and make me do something I don't want to do. If Sugar is legal they have no right to tax my use of it more so than any other product I use. This whole thing started with tobacco and now it's sugar? Where does it end. With the socialist democrats in power we're going to get more and more of this control over our lives. Stop it now! Which freedom is next? What are you doing that some democrat doesn't like and so is plotting to tax it? One thing for sure - these left wing liberals are worse than the right wing religious zelots when it comes to converting you to their way of thinking.