date:Oct 16, 2012
Ballot measures in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area are intended to tackle a pervasive problem in this country: the ballooning number of Americans that are overweight or obese.
If adopted, the proposals in the cities of El Monte and Richmond would assess a license fee on businesses that sell sugar-sweetened beverages.
Critics claim the measures would result in higher beverage costs and fail to fight obesity.
Richmond's Measure N would impose a business license tax of one pen