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Campaign Unavailable We're sorry, this alert is no longer available. If you would like to learn more about ways you can take action, please visit Center for Science in the Public Interest.The short explanation of this alert was: High-leverage prevention programs can have three big benefits: generate revenues to pay for health care, promote wellness, and lower health care costs. A tax of seven cents per soft drink can would raise $10 billion per year to help pay for an expansion of healthcare coverage and help lower obesity rates, reducing the strain that obesity-related conditions place on Similarly, boosting the liquor-tax rate by 50% and equalizing the tax on alcohol in beer and wine would raise $12 billion in new revenues per year. Federal alcohol taxes were last raised in 1991 and have dwindled with inflation since then. Higher taxes would cut problem drinking, provide revenues that could be used to expand sick-care coverage, and help reduce alcohol problems that lead to some $200 billion in medical and other societal costs each year.
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