It has been noticed that the US government had placed some small taxes on Soda and other carbonated drinks.

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This reason for such actions was that people might be kept away from obesity especially the young kids who are always found of such drinks but a recent research has showed that small taxes has no impact on children’s obesity rate and may be the some more taxes will help in reaching this goal.

This study has been actually revealed as proposal to raise taxes on carbonated drinks and it was lead by Roland Sturm, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif.

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