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Re: Big Government, Bad Policy 

By: DGpeddler in POPE | Recommend this post (3)
Sun, 10 Jun 12 7:04 AM | 70 view(s)
Boardmark this board | (The) Pope's for real stock market report 		Msg. 60489 of 65535
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Hey Zim, I still think the government should step in and make all them fat folks pick up litter and do other physical labor jobs.

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Big Government, Bad Policy
By: Zimbler0 in POPE
Sun, 10 Jun 12 6:45 AM 		Msg. 60484 of 65535

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/06/06/big-government-bad-policy-and-rising-health-care-.aspx

Call it the war on supersizing. Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to restrict the size of New Yorkers' soft drinks. He's been on the vanguard of public health policy before, with a 2002 indoor smoking ban and a trans-fat fight in 2006. Later efforts -- including an attempt to restrict food stamp recipients' ability to buy sugary drinks and a failed soda tax -- have been decidedly less successful.

There are logical governance reasons for this nanny-state meddling. Obesity is a major health issue, and New York State has one of the costliest health-care burdens per person in the United States. Controlling obesity would help control out-of-control health-care spending, or so the argument goes. However, banning soda may be the wrong way to rein in rising obesity rates and control out-of-control health-care spending -- but not for the reasons you might think.

Don't tread on my waistline


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