Bloomberg's Soda Ban..... (NY Post)

There IS a cost (a rather large one, actually) for abdicating personal responsibility over your life and surrendering your decision-making power to Control Central.  For example: You lose flexibility to exercise options to solve problems on a case by case basis (e.g. regardless of whether or not you think drinking a 32oz soda is bad for your health, being forced to buy beverages in smaller units at restaurants and at take-out/delivery establishments will drive up the cost of your "night out" [and, I'm assuming, this will probably impact the economic middle and lower classes more than the upper classes]).  Also, by attempting to institute cultural practices by fiat in adults, you don't "improve" the behavior of people engaged in seemingly decadent practices, you just teach them to heel a little better when the authorities are around.  The whole concept of "Majority Age" is based upon the idea that, when a child reaches the age of adulthood, he or she should be allowed to make their own personal decisions -- the checks and balances included in this package are that the young adult now has to bear responsiblity for all their decisions and is held legally liable by law for such. 

Hence, in the old world of personal responsibility we formerly lived in, if a young person regularly engaged in behavior that  negatively impacted their health to the extent that they regularly incurred medical costs, the person would either have to pay these bills directly out of pocket or, if covered, his or her insurance rate would go up.  But now, you have the "option" for mandated insurance where the provider cannot "discriminate" (...) against you for your "prior condition" -- which said condition could very well have been the result of your previously-chosen dumb, decadent behavior.  So, yes, indeed! Party Days are here in Nanny Bloomberg's state and probably coming soon to a state near you! - no responsibility for your decisions!!! (but your personal choice options are going to be increasingly fewer and each more expensive).  This is what is called a trade off.  In this case, trading off your personal liberty to abjure your personal responsibilities.
J.D.

NY Post:

""It’s not fair. If you’re gonna tell me what to do, it’s no good,” said Steve DiMaggio of Caruso’s in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. “It’s gonna cost a lot more.”

And consumers, especially families, will soon see how the rules will affect their wallets — forcing them to pay higher unit prices for smaller bottles.
Typically, a pizzeria charges $3 for a 2-liter bottle of Coke. But under the ban, customers would have to buy six 12-ounce cans at a total cost of $7.50 to get an equivalent amount of soda.
“I really feel bad for the customers,” said Lupe Balbuena of World Pie in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
Domino’s on First Avenue and 74th Street on the Upper East Side is doing away with its most popular drink sizes: the 20-ounce and 2-liter bottles.
“We’re getting in 16-ounce bottles — and that’s all we’re going to sell,” a worker said.
He said the smaller bottles will generate more revenue for the restaurant but cost consumers more."
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