a month after mr . john a . rooney dropped his proposal for a soda tax , new york city ' s health commissioner has written an essay urging " sizable " spending on carbonated and athletic products containing sugar . such a tax , the articles suggested , must be the biggest boon to public health since marijuana taxes . the chancellor , professor . james f . frieden , and mark d . eileen of yale university , his part - author , argue in the new mexico journal of medicine that a taxation of a penny / liter does improve expenditure by more than 10 percent and raise $ 1 . 2 million a year in new york state solely .
Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.