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MEDIA RELEASE The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has criticized proposed legislation, SB 1085, which would place an additional tax of one cent per ounce on sugar-sweetened beverages. The bill will next be considered by the Ways and Means Committee before going to the Senate floor. CCF contents the proposal to tax sugar-sweetened beverages […]

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J. Justin Wilson, senior research analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Consumer Freedom, forwarded the following statement after the Hawaii County Council’s Environmental Management Committee this week approved a bill aimed at reducing the use of plastic grocery bags: “While Big Island lawmakers consider instituting a ban on plastic bags, you should consider this: […]

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