{"id":706,"date":"2009-05-24T10:18:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T08:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=706"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:28","slug":"soda-makers-hope-tax-plan-goes-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Soda Makers Hope Tax Plan Goes Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, companies like Atlanta-headquartered Coca-Cola Co. are sour on the potential of anew tax on sugar sweetened softdrinks to pay for President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed overhaul of the nation&#8217;s health care system.<\/p>\n<p>The defence strategy is one of rethoric: Coke refers to American Beverage Association to answer for them. So the Beverage Association started working by calling the proposed tax a &#8220;sin&#8221; tax. Clever move!. And they continue not adressing the obesity facts but only the rethoric: &#8220;It&#8217;s an over-reach when government uses the tax code to tell people what to eat and drink,&#8221; said Kevin Keane who is senior vice president of the American Beverage Association.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverageworld.com\/content\/view\/36248\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Soda Makers Hope Tax Plan Goes Flat in Beverage World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, companies like Atlanta-headquartered Coca-Cola Co. are sour on the potential of anew tax on sugar sweetened softdrinks to pay for President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed overhaul of the nation&#8217;s health care system. The defence strategy is one of rethoric: Coke refers to American Beverage Association to answer for them. So the Beverage Association started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}