The comments are interesting split between freedom-lovers and nanny-staters. John Stuart Mill is quoted.
THIS BIG DRINK IS MAKING ME FAT! MAKE THEM STOP SELLING IT!
Or, you know, buy a smaller drink, or don’t drink it, or whatever you do, don’t get six refills while you’re at the restaurant. Or even better, how about firing each and every stupid idiot who thinks that this is a power that the city or ANYONE should have?
Yeah, I remember when I was a kid, a bagel at the local deli was only as big as a Cheerio.
And that gets to the point of the matter, as Eric Blair 2084 has said. When the government is taking care of people's health, the taxpayers and government eventually see a duty to limit people's choices in order to save money.
Let's hope the Supremes overturn Obamacare.
Nanny State PING!
Do these bans apply to all the amnestied illegals, too, or to just us lowly citizens?
Anyone found not eating government prescribed food stuffs would face lengthy imprisonment and fines. Children of the offending families would be given to government agencies. The sentences would be issued by a special court of food and meal officers, and there would be no appeals. Sounds like a democratic process to me. (smirk)
And misunderstood. Mill goes to considerable length to point out that the argument of "harm to others" only applies if it is a specific quantifiable harm to identifiable individual(s) not a amorphous general society.
Also one quite pertinent statement
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people - JS MillSociety reformers take note
I lost my taste for soda when I was in my 40’s, don’t drink coffee anymore and i just drink tea most of the time.
You’re either free or you are not. It is always the liberals that want to enslave you, and voting them in will always invite them to put chains on you.
However, I would severely limit what food stamp recipients could buy. I get disgusted watching overweight people buy crap on my dime.
Blessings, Bobo
And the winner will be....the retailers selling soda in 15-ounce cups, or smaller, for the same, or higher, price.
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog is.” —G. K. Chesterton
Soon we’ll have speakeasies where you give a password at the door and you can come in and buy a big soda.
People get real. Liberals are forcing a higher tax revenue by reducing volume sales. This is a sneaky way to do it. That SOB could give a crap less about sugary drinks.
Ever heard of sharing? When two 16 oz. drinks cost you a total of about $10 and one 32 oz. drink costs about $7.50, we buy the larger one and share.
Jeeze Bloomie, I’m glad you are doing something about the obesity problem. Now I don’t have to step over all the obese people Michelle says are dying in food deserts to get to Circle K’s 44 ounce drinks for 89 cents.
“Let’s be honest – people aren’t exactly making the best choices with their “personal freedom” these days.”
These people make me sick! Sadly, there are a few FReepers that agree....