Business professor challenges tax proposal in The Hill
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Harbert Eminent Scholar and Professor of Management Dave Ketchen recently challenged a proposal for a new national tax on carbonated beverages offered by a team of researchers from Cal-Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and New York University.
In an op-ed for The Hill, a leading political newspaper and website published in Washington, D.C., since 1994, Ketchen notes that beverage taxes disproportionately affect poor citizens and that city-level beverage taxes have cost jobs and led to store closures.
The op-ed is available on The Hill’s website.
Dave Ketchen
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