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John Stossel quoted via Radley Balko (www.theagitator.com)
"I did have had a wonderful time on Air America's Morning Sedition, with a host who was furious that government doesn't stop Americans from eating too many Big Macs. I treasure the moment of silence that followed my saying that government that's big enough to tell you what to eat ... is ( Read more... )
"I did have had a wonderful time on Air America's Morning Sedition, with a host who was furious that government doesn't stop Americans from eating too many Big Macs. I treasure the moment of silence that followed my saying that government that's big enough to tell you what to eat ... is ( Read more... )
private power is perhaps the most democratic of all. instead of voting once every few years for a limited set of choices you vote many times a day, deciding what to buy and how much you spend and on which products. private institutions are held to much higher standards as far customer satisfaction than the state. in a free market, a company isn't around unless people actively like it and "vote" for it everyday.
it's impossible for private institutions to be your master(if you dont't want them to be) because you're the one feeding them. yeah, that goes for the state, too, but for them you have to pay for a service, even ones you don't need or want. they're a weed you're obligated to water, but private institutions are part of everyone's garden and you can choose to tend to or neglect them as you wish.
and there must be a lot more new-age-crystal-worshipping-lefties out there than i originally thought, or maybe they're just all judges, legislators and columnists. how many millions have fast food companies paid out to fatasses? more and more newspaper articles are written in favor of gov't intervention in food, especially for children. and in many legislatures around the country there are discussions on how to keep kids from drinking coke and eating unhealthy foods in general. some places such as san fransisco have discussed sin taxes on fast food to discourage people from patronizing. sin taxes on fast food. and doesn't this all sound familiar? it sounds an awful lot like the tobacco debate 10 years ago. now cigs are prohibited in private institutions in most major cities. how far ahead is the inevitably similar fate of unhealthy food? and that's not a slippery slope mirage, it's an established legislative pattern.
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