The whole paternalistic government thing is a bit creepy, but if you are going to do it (which we obviously are) then good to apply it somewhat equally. Soda i

The whole paternalistic government thing is a bit creepy, but if you are going to do it (which we obviously are) then good to apply it somewhat equally. Soda is basically poison. The producers would be driven out of business in any rational economy where they were not shielded from product liability law suits. A free market requires a free and just legal system. In the US every single producer of toxic and deadly products has their own specially granted immunity from product liability, either by judicial custom or legislation.