a month after capt . matthew a . paterson stopped his proposal for a soda tax , new york city ' s health authority has wrote an account advocating " profits " taxes on hamburgers and exercise products containing sugar . such a tax , the article said , could be the only risk to municipal health since drug products . the commissioner , gov . andrew r . luc , and kelly d . gilpin of yale university , his co - write , argues in the new england journal of medicine that a tax of a quarter to tablet could reduce use by more than 10 % and rise $ 1 . 2 million a year in new york state alone .
Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.