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Sugar taxes rear their ugly heads—again

By Meghan Sapp

27th February 2020

Sugar taxes are on the rise again, but they’re the result of lazy and greedy policymaking.

It appears that two years after the rush by governments around the world to implement sugar taxes allegedly in response to burgeoning health crises, a second wave of new taxes or expansion of existing taxes is threatening the sugar industry yet again. If the link between sugar taxes and improved health could be demonstrated, then

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