Hi, Dad.

Perhaps we should tax YOU when you write this tripe.  Unless you're addicted to sugary drinks.  Then, I can understand your anger. If you ARE addicted to sugary drinks, better YOU pay for your habit than others. "Paying for your habit" includes your future medical bills so many of us who aren't addicted will help pay when the kids are 40-60, and they're diabetics, or victims of heart disease and strokes, due, in part to bad eating habits. 

You have "the freedom to choose."  That would include sugary drinks, too. Or not. Even better, if you have the freedom to pay your own financial freight--now, and perhaps later, from your hospital bed or wheelchair.