“Soda tax? To fund a government malpractice pool?”
“You need to stop sniffing glue.”
The soda tax is a tax that the jurors most likely to award massive uneconomic damages awards would pay.
The tax is designed to make the lower-income jurors who haven’t earned much money in their lives think hard and carefully before handing out other peoples’ money.
Soda tax is a new thing, claiming massive awards likely is dubious. Further, the purpose of a tax is to induce jury awards? I could go on.