By Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in proposing a city-wide ban on the sale of large sodas and sweetened drinks stumbled upon a policy more unpopular than Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Sixty-five percent of American adults oppose the ban according to a
new Rasmussen survey. Sixty-one percent of Americans had a somewhat-to-very unfavorable view of Russian President Vladimir Putin the former KGB officer widely-regarded as perpetrating election fraud in the last election in a Rasmussen survey
conducted in March.
Bloomberg
called critics ridiculous when responding to the backlash against his ban last week. I look across this country and people are obese and everybody wrings their hands and nobodys willing to do something about it he said.
Strong majorities of Americans oppose such efforts to influence their eating choices. Support for so-called sin taxes on junk food and soft drinks is at its lowest level yet Rasmussen
reported in a poll released yesterday as he found that 63 percent of Americans oppose the sin taxes on unhealthy foodor beverages.
A silver lining for Bloomberg: More people support his ban (24 percent) than approve of Putin (15 percent). For Putin though 23 percent of Americans have no opinion; just 11 percent of Americans are undecided about the large soda ban.
