{"id":800,"date":"2009-05-17T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T09:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=800"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:32","slug":"soda-tax-weighed-to-pay-for-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Senate leaders are considering new federal taxes on soda and other sugary drinks to help pay for an overhaul of the nation&#8217;s health-care system. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based watchdog group that pressures food companies to make healthier products, plans to propose a federal excise tax on soda, certain fruit drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and ready-to-drink teas. It would not include most diet beverages. Excise taxes are levied on goods and manufacturers typically pass them on to consumers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124208505896608647.html\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senate leaders are considering new federal taxes on soda and other sugary drinks to help pay for an overhaul of the nation&#8217;s health-care system. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based watchdog group that pressures food companies to make healthier products, plans to propose a federal excise tax on soda, certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}