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Soda, you re taxing a symptom. it s not the disease. what about the cake, the ice cream, the candy, the hamburgers, the milk shakes? it s just the beginning. let me get back a little bit on this point, because a budget analyst from new york, from your state, said obesity-related problems cost new york taxpayers $7.6 billion a year. if that s true, couldn t a soda tax save money by keeping people healthier? no. and i ll tell you what. if it was because it covers just taking sodas and putting taxes on sodas, again, is just treating a symptom. what you got to do is you got to have education in our schools. there are no gyms in our schools or exercise programs in our schools. my 11, 12-year-old kid was heavy in grammar school. you know what i did? i took him and put him on teams, sports teams. i took him to the gym. ....