Bloomberg's Long History of Nannying
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🗓️ 6 June 2012
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, June 6, 2012. I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:09.0 | New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to direct New Yorkers to healthier options, but his ban on sugary drinks of a certain size is just the latest in a long line of interventions, aimed at restricting liberty in the name of public health. |
| 0:21.5 | Cato Institute Senior Fellow Walter Olson comments. |
| 0:24.0 | Mayor Bloomberg announced this policy. |
| 0:28.0 | He used the convenience picture of little sugar cubes stacked up on a desk which is a I guess a common |
| 0:34.8 | picture relating to sugar content but a majority of New Yorkers are against |
| 0:41.5 | him what makes that what makes this a good policy in his eyes? |
| 0:46.0 | Well, Bloebok has been consistent over the years about wanting to do things for our own good, |
| 0:52.0 | whether we like it or not, whether we asked |
| 0:53.7 | them to or not. And this is the latest in a series of paternalistic, to put it |
| 0:59.7 | neutrally, or nanny-ish, health interventions, his Department of Health loves the word |
| 1:05.6 | interventions, which are aimed at changing or reversing the choices that |
| 1:11.4 | New Yorkers make but what to do you eat and drink? |
| 1:14.0 | It's obvious that people will try to get around this, both on the producer's side and consumer |
| 1:18.4 | side. What about two for one deals? What about free refills? They are not banning free refills. I don't think |
| 1:24.4 | they're banning two for one deals and part of the derision that this proposal |
| 1:28.6 | occasion was that it combined such petty bossiness on the one hand |
| 1:35.1 | with such incredible ineffectiveness on the other hand |
| 1:37.6 | because there are so many different ways |
| 1:39.4 | in which someone who wants a sugar rush |
| 1:41.4 | can get around it. |
| 1:42.4 | You can buy two of the smaller |
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