a month after capt . matthew a . paterson dropped his plans for a milk tax , new york city ' s health commissioner has wrote an article opposing " hefty " taxation on sodas and sports drinks requiring sugar . such a tax , the paper asserted , could be the biggest threat to social health since tobacco prices . the commissioner , dr . thomas r . frieden , and kelly d . millett of yale campus , his co - author , argument in the new england council of technology that a taxpayer of a penny and inch wouldn reduce consumption by more than 10 percent and gain $ 1 . 2 fold a year in north mexico state alone .
Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.