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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Something is missing here because you are only looking at certain limited rights and not the rights of all. There's more than one side of this equation. There's the consumer and there's the taxpayer (in New York City). And there is Blumeberg and the city health department trying to save the city from sinking into fiscal oblivion because of all the free healthcare related to obesity.
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"All the free healthcare related to
obesity"??? Really?
How about all the free healthcare taxpayers pay for related to acute and chronic diseases due to.....SMOKING cigarettes and cigars....smoking pot (which is being legalized in various states).....
alcoholism.....
sedentary, couch-potato lifestyle because getting up and going to work and burning some calories--by being too busy to fix food and eat constantly--is an unknown concept in the household?????
Government is enabling all
these things to go unchecked, and I'm not so sure the liquor and cigarette taxes actually go directly toward the care of alcoholics and COPDer/emphysema/lung-cancer patients.
Of course obesity is costly, but so are all the above and other contributing factors. What good does it do to limit the size of sugary sodas from the fountain (while you can purchase 4-5 20-oz bottles to carry and consume in the next 3 hours before a big fat-loaded carbo-holic dinner), while the sale of CIGARETTES, cigars, alcohol, and pot are seen as okay and legal or about to be legal as pot is???