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A short-lived soda tax strengthens alternative estimates of the tax’s impact on consumer behavior: a study

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One of the most common assumptions made by tax policy makers is that increasing taxes will increase government revenue. But a new study focused on Washington state’s soda tax strengthens another estimate of the tax’s impact on consumer behavior. Researchers found that when Washington state enacted a soda tax, not only did it provoke a backlash…