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Originally Posted by Villages PL
The problem, as I se it, is that most people are unable to connect the dots. People don't want large sodas taken away but they don't see a connection to their tax dollars being taken away. I would rather have large sodas and trans fats taken away than to have my tax dollars taken away. Which would be more important to you, the large soda or your hard earned money that goes to pay taxes in New York City?
At the time they decided to ban trans fat in New York City, the hospitals were being flooded with patients getting "free" heart by-pass operations. The operations were free to most of those getting the procedure but not free to New York City (resident) tax payers.
Then came the issue of large sodas: Most people never saw it as a choice between keeping their soda and keeping their tax dollars. They voted to keep the status quo. That's fine if that's what they want, but if that's what they want they should stop complaining about high taxes.
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As I said above, the issue was heart bypass operations not heart transplants. And this was costing New York City mucho millions of dollars every year. It was a very large significant amount of money. So Mayer Bloomberg and the N.Y.C. health department did what they did (banning trans fats) for 2 reasons. 1) to help tax payers avoid having to pay more tax increases and 2) to help improve health conditions overall.
About the soda issue: Sugar doesn't cause heart disease directly but it adds calories to a population that is already 2/3 overweight or obese. And it is the weight issue that is likely to bring on a chain of adverse health events that often leads to heart disease among many other diseases.