New York Times: We Deserve the Soda Ban

Helen Whalen Cohen

6/3/2012 6:39:00 PM - Helen Whalen Cohen

Do New York City residents deserve Mayor Bloomberg's ban on large sodas because they voted him in in the first place? No, it's because they (and the rest of America) has gotten too fat and piggish:




Bruni seems to either forget or chooses not acknowledge that there is an opportunity cost here. The more government is expected to pick up the slack for our health, the less responsible people will learn to be. His own acknowledgement that government needs to create harsh regulations in order to keep us healthy suggests as much.