Associations hold line on drug prices, but not soda taxes
- November 11, 2016 |
- Walt Williams
Business groups spent millions this election season in support of or opposing a range of ballot issues across the country California voters said "no" to price controls for prescription drugs, but voters there and elsewhere also upheld a law banning plastic grocery bags and approved new taxes on sugary beverages, giving associations a mixed record in the Nov. 8 elections on state and local ballot measures. Nearly 160 state ballot measures were before voters. And just as important—at least for the beverage industry—were ballot measures in four cities to impose so-called "soda taxes." Groups like Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the American Beverage… Read More