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...gubmint telling folks what they can eat is the end result of gubmint healthcare. If I have to pay for someone else's healthcare, I wants em to be non smokin, non drinkin, non car driving and non doing anything that might hurt ya even if it is fun. Other folks rights end right where my responsibility to pick up the tab for it begins.

...and for those who attack my flaws, I would just like to say, "I have big bones".




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Big Government, Bad Policy
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Sun, 10 Jun 12 6:45 AM
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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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