Soda Tax
State Sen. Bill Monning, D-Carmel, is well-practiced at losing. But when you pick David v. Goliath battles like taking on the soda industry to try to hold them accountable for ruining public health? Well, you’ve gotta get used to it. Monning has gotten used to it, but he keeps fighting the public health fight. He’s improved the quality of his outreach props – he unfurls a taped-together ribbon of 16 sugar packets from his palm, like a magic trick, to demonstrate to kids how much sugar there is in a 20-ounce bottle of soda. He’s lost twice at efforts to implement a soda tax and twice at requiring warning labels for soda. But he’s back, powered by water, with a sugary beverage warning label bill again this year.