date:Nov 08, 2012
taxes would have been applied as a complicated tax on businesses instead of being levied directly on consumers at the point of sale, and neither specified whether the money raised by the tax would be spent on public health. (Though a separate measure on the Richmond ballot, which did earmark the money for obesity prevention, passed with flying colors, but will do nothing without measure N.)
Concerns over these sorts of technicalities were at the fore of op-eds in the LA Times and the San Franc