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A dangerous precedent: soda companies paid to put an intentionally harmful but potentially popular measure on the California ballot (all local taxes would require 2/3rds ballot initiatives) and then convinced the legislature to block new municipal soda taxes for 13 years in order to withdraw the measure from the ballot.
Now that large companies are aware of this possibility, I fear the extortion will happen every election year.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-cities-banned-from-imposing-new-soda-13035692.php
