Short and not-so-sweet: These MUN profs say Premier Hogan axing the sugar tax is premature
The Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax added 20 cents to the cost of each litre of those drinks. In the last three years, the government raked in approximately $12 million annually. Premier John Hogan explains why he cut the tax, and two MUN professors tell the CBC’s Jen White he should have gone a different way.