Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100310:01:39:00
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 edu...
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