"Seattle's Soda Tax Goes Horribly Wrong"
February 28, 2022
The people implementing such a tax probably remembered a fundamental finding of economics: if you raise the price of something, other things equal, they will consume less. But they probably forgot another part of that same finding: those people will substitute into other goods.
See also "Seattle’s Nanny-State Soda Tax Backfired Spectacularly (And Hilariously) New Study Shows".