why is taxing always the solution to things like this? Seems to me like that's only going put a burden on the family food budget, one way or another.  Can't you all intelligent people out there come up with a different way to discourage sugar intake?  How about educaction, and responsible parenting? we are paying through the roof to eat good food (organic)... what about eliminating all the real poisons in the diet? If you're going that route then, how about taxing all the evils, the pesticide loaded foods, and everything else that's not good for you.
Today sugar, tomorrow, what?  Where is our freedom to eat what we want? Go tax Dunkin Donuts.