{"id":1403,"date":"2008-12-16T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:42:44","slug":"obesity-tax-on-sugar-sodas-in-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Obesity Tax on sugar sodas in New York State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A can of Coke could soon cost New Yorkers more than just calories. As part of a $121 billion budget to be unveiled Tuesday, Gov. Paterson will propose an &#8220;obesity tax&#8221; of about 15% on nondiet drinks. This means a Diet Coke might sell for a $1 &#8211; even as the same size bottle of its calorie-rich alter ego would go for $1.15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/12\/14\/2008-12-14_governor_paterson_proposes_obesity_tax_a-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A can of Coke could soon cost New Yorkers more than just calories. As part of a $121 billion budget to be unveiled Tuesday, Gov. Paterson will propose an &#8220;obesity tax&#8221; of about 15% on nondiet drinks. This means a Diet Coke might sell for a $1 &#8211; even as the same size bottle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}