HAVING SOLVED ALL OF MANHATTAN’S PROBLEMS, BILL DeBLASIO TURNS TO REDUCING ITS SODA CONSUMPTION — and his Democrat operatives with bylines are eager to help: The New York Times and the Daily News near-simultaneously advocate for increased soda taxes.

Perhaps the goal is to implement the Blue Zone Taxes incrementally, but isn’t there a paradox here? Don’t all those additional taxes more greatly harm those with lower incomes, thus increasing income inequality?