The Center for Science in the Public Interest is lobbying for such taxes and has even suggested a national excise tax on sugary drinks to reduce consumption.It's pretty much guaranteed that such a tax wouldn't close any kind of budget gap. It would put money into the boodle, which would then be pissed away in the form of contracts sent the way of the pols' supporters along with any other funds the pols could lay hands on, the while watching any deficit as a percentage of revenues expand at precisely the same rate it did before. One of these times when I get some free attention span I'm going to set this to mathematics, publish it as Pruitt's Law, get some major grant money, and spend the rest of my life on easy street. Or at least having more money to piss my way into debt at the same or greater percentage rate I'm going now.