No, I’m clearly stating that taxing sugar is neither clear cut nor is it sufficient to be in any way useful.

– plenty of beneficial foods have sugar, and plenty of harmful foods do not

– there’s lots of food with negative nutritional value but it’s not just sugar nor can it be clearly distinguished from other foods

— obesity is more a matter of habits and quantity than one ingredient .

Yeah it’s satisfying to demonize the hypothetical person who drinks two liter bottles of soda every day but that’s like cutting social programs because “welfare queens” or building a wall because “anchor babies”, or police needing military gear because “gangs”. What they all have in common is they’re a target for outrage but not real or not significant.

I’d be all for a sugar tax if I thought it could be well defined or make a difference, especially if it could make a difference for me. However of all the people I know or have met struggling with weight issues, I don’t recall any being that hypothetical sugar queen, any with any significant sweets habit that would be affected, any that could in any way be changed with this approach