Not satisfied with limiting Soda, Bloomberg goes after Popcorn, Milk-based Drinks

[Noob]

Food rationing is the real reason I can think of why they are doing this.

 

[AGRP]

I can't wait to read about swat teams raiding dinners over selling 20 oz. sodas.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

New York City Board of Health

When you create a "Board of Health", what will they do with their time and power?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The sad thing is, they are attacking true Capitalism. The way a movie theater makes it's money is by the concession stand sales.

Not to change the subject, but they don't make enough money to stay in business charging $15/person to see the movie? Methinks a competitive market is not functioning here.

 

[Cowlesy]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.C. S. Lewis

Well, that basically sums it up right there.

 

[dannno]

My husband comes from a long line of New Yorkers, and he's just amazed how far the old New York attitude has fallen.

I love sandwiches. Sandwiches are easy to eat, but I hate sandwiches at New York delis; too much fuckin' meat on the sandwich. It's like a cow with a cracker on either side. Walk in, order a pastrami sandwich. "Alright, anything else?" Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people!

-RIP Mitch Hedberg

 

[cajuncocoa]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.C. S. Lewis

I love this quote... I recently belonged to a (now-defunct) message board that was inhabited with mostly liberals/progressives ... Carlybee and I being among the few voices for Ron Paul and liberty, and taking LOTS of arrows for him. I always thought it was ironic that one of the nanny-state progressives used to have this C.S.Lewis quote in her sig line. Go figure.

 

[Lucille]

NYC tough guys? Hardly! Biggest pussy cats in the country.



"Tough guys, aren't ya?! You f'n stand around like f'n bitches smoking outside, they tell you what you can put in your food, what you can eat, where to dance, where to walk, "I can't use my cell phone behind the wheel of my car...I'm a tough MFer." Before you advertise how tough you are, you might want to go into the bathroom and douche some of Bloomberg's [I'd better not. LOL Watch it and find out yourself.] because it seems to me you are just little bitches to city hall..."

 

[Victor Grey]

Obviously libertarians think this is a terrible idea, but I even think that most people in America think this much overreach is bonkers. And when I say most, I mean cops too. And, at some point one of these business owners will get fed up and refuse to comply with these mandates, at which point the authorities will face a critical decision. Do I, as a cop, blindly follow the law and arrest this citizen for selling popcorn? Or, do I, as an individual, think that this law is so damn stupid and wrong-headed that I refuse to enforce it? Do I want to be an instrument of a tyrannical system that I disagree with while living in a so-called free country? Do I want to be the kind of cop who jails people for milkshakes? Will I act on my conscience or will I serve as just another mindless cog in the machine? Government can only enforce its will through force. So, will there come a day when someone in New York gets shot by a cop for refusing to drop their Slurpee?

Depends on what you mean pintbottlepress.

If you mean, do I think most or at least many, of your regular leo is going to break out handcuffs if he sees a large food box full of popcorn, even if he recalled that isn't technically legal? No I don't think so. Not all of them, the amount I wouldn't know to guess.

If you mean, that if some related group or agency which is a portion of all total enforcement, and is tasked or in part tasked with wasting our money going around and finding this stuff, would he participate in a raid or use the cuffs with little more provocation than a point in a direction, even if it's against his own conscience because of the consequences of not? Yes I do think so. Naturally, if they're going to make the law, somebody's going to be around to try enforcing it.

We got a nation that is full of sheriffs with no backbone, in my opinion, and I feel that's a big part of the problem. If they'd just say "no", that would be very helpful to cut this stuff out. Would be 100 times more helpful than those under him bucking the system.

 

[Xhin]

Government: Give em an inch and they'll take a mile

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Better start practicing your goose step.

 

[pintbottlepress]

Depends on what you mean pintbottlepress.

If you mean, do I think most or at least many, of your regular leo is going to break out handcuffs if he sees a large food box full of popcorn, even if he recalled that isn't technically legal? No I don't think so. Not all of them, the amount I wouldn't know to guess.

If you mean, that if some related group or agency which is a portion of all total enforcement, and is tasked or in part tasked with wasting our money going around and finding this stuff, would he participate in a raid or use the cuffs with little more provocation than a point in a direction, even if it's against his own conscience because of the consequences of not? Yes I do think so. Naturally, if they're going to make the law, somebody's going to be around to try enforcing it.

We got a nation that is full of sheriffs with no backbone, in my opinion, and I feel that's a big part of the problem. If they'd just say "no", that would be very helpful to cut this stuff out. Would be 100 times more helpful than those under him bucking the system.

I take your point. I guess I'm taking for granted that everyone values their freedom, authorities included, yet the public at large seems more and more comfortable with quietly rolling over when freedoms are taken away. And I'm wondering at what point will the authorities, who themselves value freedom and are tasked with enforcing these draconian laws, reach the point of cognitive dissonance where they reflect and say, "You know what? What I'm enforcing here is wrong, and I refuse to do it anymore." I wonder when that will happen, or if that will happen. And if it ultimately doesn't happen, then when does this crap end? If there's not some major blowback from a large faction of society, then we'll just lose more and more control of our lives. And if it doesn't end, then it seems we're on a one-way road to tyranny.

 

[Endgame]

The government created the obesity and chronic disease epidemic through its nutritional recommendations, agricultural subsidies and its other interactions with the agriculture and food processing industries. Trying to ban the garbage the manipulated market has filled the shelves with is just going to fuck things up horribly. How long till someone gets shot over the black market that will arise to give the fructose addicts their fix?

 

[RickyJ]

I will take 12 popcorns and 12 cokes please. (About the equivalent of 3 large cokes and 3 large popcorns for about 36 bucks.)

That will be one hundred and twenty dollars.

Say what?

 

[devil21]

Two thoughts. First, limiting sizes of anything consumable means people will lose their purchasing power since the larger something is, the cheaper it is per unit. Basic economics. NY raises more tax revenues by making someone buy two of an item at a higher price instead of a single at a cheaper unit price. They don't really expect people to not drink as much soda as they want to just because of this law. Second, it looks like Agenda 21 testbed material to see how much push back the rulers get when trying to control people's consumption habits in densely populated areas. An earlier poster's comment about public health costs also rings true. Probably in the same vein as all the anti-smoking commercials Ive been seeing....brb, gotta put this cigarette out.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Just wait until Obamacare.

 

[Pauls' Revere]

nobody will give a shit until they ban what size and type of Starbucks coffee flavored drink you order. Then, and only then will people wake up.

 

[devil21]

nobody will give a shit until they ban what size and type of Starbucks coffee flavored drink you order. Then, and only then will people wake up.

Or will they stay asleep from lack of coffee and soda caffeine? /badabing

 

[tttppp]

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/18774940/health-panel-talks-about-wider-food-ban



I can't believe this crap happens in America.

There's nothing wrong with popcorn. What is bad for you is all the butter customers dump on their popcorn. This would absolutely be a pointless law.

As I said before, state and local governments usually are not any less corrupt and better run than the federal government. I see no reason to keep state and local governments. All they are is unnecessary bureaucracy and regulation.

 

[Revolution9]

There's nothing wrong with popcorn. What is bad for you is all the butter customers dump on their popcorn. This would absolutely be a pointless law.

As I said before, state and local governments usually are not any less corrupt and better run than the federal government. I see no reason to keep state and local governments. All they are is unnecessary bureaucracy and regulation.

It's not butter. They put seed oils with flavoring..bad stuff. If popped in coconut oil with real butter and sea salt it is healthy stuff.

Rev9