State soda fee fails to pop

Senators on the Ways and Means Committee table a charge on sugary drinks

By Derrick DePledge

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 01, 2013

~~<p>Isle soda drinkers will not have to worry about paying a penalty this year to get their jolt of sugar.</p>
<p>State senators have chosen not to advance a soda fee of 1 cent per ounce that would have brought in about $37 million a year to counter obesity. The Abercrombie administration had hoped that the soda fee, as with higher taxes on tobacco, would discourage consumption.</p>
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Isle soda drinkers will not have to worry about paying a penalty this year to get their jolt of sugar.

State senators have chosen not to advance a soda fee of 1 cent per ounce that would have brought in about $37 million a year to counter obesity. The Abercrombie administration had hoped that the soda fee, as with higher taxes on tobacco, would discourage consumption. Login for more...