Thanks nanny. I drink a fair amount of soda and pull my own weight so to speak.  I don't need you charging me more because you don't like my choices and want to subsidize people who aren't healthy (with my $$$).  Sin taxes are sinful. The govt. can feel free to charge me $$$ or punish me when I violate others' rights.  That's their proper role - not social "engineering" and wealth redistribution.