Is a Soda Tax Fair?

Obesity may be a crisis, but is taxation merely the Washington knee-jerk response?  Some discussion from the Washington Post.

 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2009/08/is_a_soda_tax_fair.html?wprss=checkup

Meanwhile, the soft drink industry has started an ad campaign against "taxes on simple pleasures."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/15/MNF61951C0.DTL