Bill de Blasio vows to make Mayor Bloomberg's big soda ban a reality

[DanTex]

14. This clearly has nothing to do with discrimination or bigotry. It is a public health measure.

How about food inspections, are you opposed to those? Is it wrong for the government to tell me I can't buy a piece of food because it's after the "expiration date"? What if I'm willing to roll the dice to get a lower price?

What about medical licenses. If I to get want surgery from a used car salesman, should I have that choice?

Are you in favor of legalizing all drugs? And making all pharmaceuticals available without prescriptions? Including things like global anesthetics and paralytics?

If you answered "no" to any of those questions, you might want to reconsider, and realize that this is a more nuanced issue than you give it credit for.

This is not about morality, it is about health. It's not saying that drinking big sodas makes you a bad person. It also doesn't ban drinking a lot of soda.

What it does is prevent vendors from making profit by selling harmful substances in large quantities. And, for the record, the NYC trans-fat ban is not widely ignored at all. It is widely followed, because restaurants don't want to lose their licenses. http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/health/nyc-fat-ban-paying-off/

There is no reason to believe that any stores or vendors in NYC are going to ignore the big soda ban either. This isn't regulating a personal activity, it is regulating a commercial activity.