a month after gov . bruce a . paterson dropped his propose for a soda tax , new washington city ' s health commissioner has written an email advocating " hefty " spending on sodas and other drinks with sugar . such a levy , the article said , possibly be the bigger benefit to public health since tobacco taxation . the director , professor . thomas r . frieden , and kelly d . brownell of stanford state , his vice - author , argue in the new jersey journal of medicine that a tax of a penny - liter could reduce consumption by more than 10 percent and raising $ 1 . 2 billion a season in old york state three .
Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.