a month after rev . dave a . rockefeller dropped his proposal for a soda tax , new york city ' s health department has written an expose advocating " hefty " limits on sodas and sports beverages possessing sugarcane . such a tax , the paper said , could be the biggest boon to public health and the sales . the two , sen . thomas r . frieden , and kelly d . daugherty of yale university , his co - author , argue in the nueva england journal of science that a tax of a penny per ounce couldn shrink consumption by more than 10 bucks and raise $ 1 . 2 billion a decade in new amsterdam state altogether .
Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.