Why make a soda tax? Just stop giving corn subsidies, which will make corn syrup more expensive which would make sodas more expensive.?

Which specific subsidies do you have a problem with? There are no direct subsidies specific to corn. Farm subsidies mainly take the form of support for crop insurance premiums which cover a portion of the farmers losses in cases of crop failure or low market prices, and they are available for all crops, not just corn.

Soda is already more expensive than water in most cases. Corn syrup is cheaper in the United States than sugar because corn grows better than sugar cane in our climate, and in any case, soda sweetened with sugar would be just as bad.

As long as we're talking about the same 'corn subsudies' that are actually ethanol subsidies go for it! When ethanol is no longer blended in fuel, cars will last longer but the greenies will get upset.

Because then the tea partiers will start protesting to get the government's hands off their farm subsidies, republicans in congress will declare the cuts socialism, and it will be either be shot down or sill be sent to subcomittee limbo.

Because then the money would go to the soda company as profit instead of the Government as revenue.

Agreed. Good luck getting that past Republicans.

Never mind human rights, warfare, poverty and disease! What about that damned soda tax???

Because you don't get to decide who gets to have sodas

GASP! Logic??? In Washington??? Not gonna happen.