So glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you and that quality

yours.

I want you to learn ideas so you can keep more of what you make.

Today's Clark Rage's moment is an update on a New York law that allows merchants to

charge you more to use plastic.

Why is it a Clark Rage?

I'll fill you in.

And coming up later, I have an update for you on my latest cancer tests and I will tell

you what's going on with my health and what my future looks like with cancer.

Right now I want to talk about something that has been very controversial around the country.

And also in other countries as well, it is sugar taxes where if you use a sugared soft

drink, you buy a sugared soft drink in some cities, some countries, you pay a much higher

price for it than if you buy something that is not a sweetened soft drink.

Well in Philadelphia, what people call the soda tax has actually caused sales of soft

drinks to fall 40%.

Even when you include people like me that would go outside jurisdiction to buy drinks

without the tax, even when you count that, sales are down 40%.

And according to the study that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,

the consumers in the Philadelphia metro area are consuming one billion fewer ounces of soda

per year now because of the tax.

The tax is one and a half cents per ounce.

So for a 20 ounce bottle, that means it's now 30 cents more.

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