Unbelievable as it may seem to people who take their freedom for granted, the bans on sweet drinks are becoming a reality, and the trend is rapidly spreading.
WHEREAS: High intake of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages increases the risk of obesity and diabetes; and
WHEREAS:
New York City has a plan to limit the serving size of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages sold in restaurants; now therefore be itORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to refer the matter of a ban on soda and sugar-sweetened beverages in restaurants to the Cambridge Public Health Department for a recommendation.
These smarmy prigs are making a laughingstock of the left, and the fact that they are pushing such nonsense in an election year makes me wonder whether they are out of touch with reality. Ordinary people don’t like being screwed with by people who consider themselves their betters, and I hope the repeated passage of these insane laws resonates in November. They are making it so simple for the Republicans to market themselves as the Party That Believes In Leaving People Alone. The Dems think that leaving people alone is a crime. While I often wish the Republicans were more consistent about leaving people alone, it is clear to me that despite their faults, the Republican philosophy leaves more people alone than the all-embracing statist philosophy of the Democrats.
There’s also the issue of consistency. I would love to know is why they aren’t treating alcohol like the sugar it is.
Logic dictates that this follows:
WHEREAS: High intake of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages increases the risk of obesity and diabetes; and
WHEREAS:
New York City has a plan to limit the serving size of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages sold in restaurants; andWHEREAS alcohol is a byproduct of sugar which is equally bad for the health; now therefore be it
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to refer the matter of a ban on soda and sugar-sweetened and all alcoholic beverages in restaurants to the Cambridge Public Health Department for a recommendation.
We need to be consistent!
Hear hear.
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4 responses to “How sweet!”
But, it’s not an enumerated right! Ingesting sugar that is.
Congress shall make no law… (http://opines.mythusmage.org/?p=2031)
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What else do you expect from Cambridge?
Rationality is on low rations in that city.
Of course they won’t make any such prohibition against alcohol. It’s not that they’ve learned any lessons from history (they’re incapable of that), but rather that the RIGHT SORT of people enjoy drinking alcohol; ergo, they won’t ban it (or if they do, they’ll make sure the law only applies to the low-sloping-forehead people out in flyover country, who don’t know what’s good for them).