Where I draw the line on government involvement.

When you give government more power than the Constitution allows, you have opened the door to their grabbing as much power as they can.

Hahaha. That is so stupid. What is the mayor thinking about anyway. If I can't buy a 2 liter soda bottle, I can certainly buy two 1 liter bottles. I don't see the point. If I can't buy a 1 liter soda, eh I'll just buy 2 500ml bottles. So sue me. Okay just for that I'll go ahead and buy 4. I used to be overweight myself. Gee, I love to eat and drink. Although I've been training my a$$ off to get fit. I've lost more than 30lbs. I still love to eat like a horse and drink like there's no tomorrow. Sad to say, I am a victim myself of what society feeds me. hehehe. But I've figured out a way to keep fit while still being my old food loving self. Yup, the fitness sector is at an all out war with all kinds of unhealthy stuff. But you are certainly right about one thing, let the people decide for themselves what to buy. If one is against these kinds of unhealthy food or drink, then don't buy them. If the demand is no longer there, the products in question will surely die on its own time and not before. hehehe.

no, you did not wrong, in my country even sometimes super market sell expired canned food (mean they did not take tight control to their stuff and they safe there is no problem with it) - sorry I just try to add my earning by joining your topic, thanks for your interesting discussion.

That is what you going to get from a city government that has too much free time on hand and having too many incompetency onboard. Whether someone want to be thin or heavy is strictly his/her personal business, not city government affair. A fatty or a bone as* should be left to choose to buy a soda pack with sugar, calories, coloring, or even vitamins whenever he/she likes, it is his money and his constitutional rights to buy whatever drinks he likes, stop harassing soft drinks producers and American consumers. I agree with you on this one.

Well this is the natural result of allowing government to be involved. Once you allow government into any aspect of controlling your private personal life, then there will always be slippery slope. You can ban headphones, because someone was wearing them when they got killed by a train. You can ban cell phones, because someone hit another person while talking on the phone. Once you allow government in, once that that control, then the limit becomes arbitrary. Your limit is this. My limit is that. Both of can make cases either way, but the limit is simply arbitrary. This is why government shouldn't be allowed even the ability to dictate what drink you have, or any other pointless personal preference.

The more the government grows, the less freedom we will have. Many think the government should control people until they are ideal citizens. However we have learned that in many cases it does the opposite. Many because people are losing their freedom and choices. All I say is lets get the government out of our lives so we can get religion back into it.

It's just more nanny-state garbage from Bloomberg. This guy really wants to control everything you eat or drink. He also banned people from giving food to homeless people because it might not he couldn't verify the amount of salt in the food. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/

if i lived in ny, i would be telling that man to leave my soda pop alone! it's the only vise i have left and i need my caffiene! since I AM the one that carried a child for 9 months and gave birth to that child, I AM the one that determines what they can drink. if I deem that they can have a 2 ltr pop, that's MY choice. after all, this is AMERICA! it's my RIGHT! he can get out!!

The more protection from ourselves the government can insist we need, the more government we'll need. This gives them job security. And this is why I get so worked up when people dare to blame all of America's woes on capitalism. No. The greediest, evilest SOBs in the world are politicians in our country. They can pretend they're loving and that they care about things, but at the end of the day they're just out for their own job security. Policing junk food invites more government to monitor the more government that's going to overlap the more government promoted to police it. Healthy salaries, big benefits, nice cars, free food and travel, and I bet a Franklin to a bottle of Dr. Pepper that these self-righteous charlatans will be drinking sugary sodas all the while. (That's in between lobster dinners and $16 muffins of course.)

Yesterday was ban big sodas day. Today was celebrate National DONUT Day! This Mayor has got to get a plan and stick to it! Talk about wishy-washy. But, I'm with you - get out of my kitchen, my soda size and anything else that yells 'Nanny State!' Something the good Mayor isn't taking into account is that Physical Education has almost been banned from all schools because the darling kiddies might get a scratch and the dear parents will then sue, sue, sue. If the darling kids had their computers, cell phones, ipods, etc., taken away and they were kicked out the door to play real live games of running, hiding, seeking, and any game requiring movement, the weight problem might not rise quite so fast. But stopping the sell of something that catches the Mayor's fancy ain't gonna do a darned thing until the kiddies get off their tushes!

Bloomberg is an absolute moron and a socialist of the first order. Or maybe its socialist and a moron of the first order... He is of the ilk that believe that the government has to control every aspect of citizen's lives. He believes that the ruling class, such as himself, knows better than everyone else what is "good" for them, so he has to enact laws to protect people from themselves. He thinks everyone is much too stupid and incapable of deciding for themselves what they should eat or drink. This is the absolute worst kind of government intervention. The people of New York are having their freedoms taken away from them and they just sit idly by and let it happen. I guess they deserve what they get. Bloomberg is pro choice. So he believes that a woman has the right to choose to kill a baby inside her, but he is saying that I can't have the right to choose to buy a large soda. How stupid is this guy? I'll tell you, he's dangerous stupid. If the people of New York had any sense, they'd get him and anybody that thinks like him out of office ASAP.

That`s great news.Maybe if they will take you the soda and the cookies you like to eat you will start to ask yourself about what exactly freedom means and who wants to take your freedom away from you. Enjoy your sugar free soda.

Maybe they are just concern regarding the issue of unhealthy life style and weight of people that is why they are proposing this kind of stuff. It is up to the people if they will going to approve or support this.

I totally agree with you on this one. It is none of the government's business what you want to eat or drink or how much of it. And what happens when they ban the sale of 2 litre bottles of soda? They go to making more one litre bottles, which in the long run doesn't mean less soda, it just means more bottles, more packaging to dispose of. Besides, not all people are the same or put on weight at the same rate. I know plenty of "skinny" people who drink a whole lot more than 2 litres of soda a day. And where does it stop? If they are so concerned about obesity as a health issue next they will be forcing people to do a certain amount of exercise every day, then banning computers because some people think that computers and video games are responsible for obesity in our young people...where does it all end?

I know your views on this, as you replied to my topic earlier. I think that the government has a responsibility to give people all of the information that they need about what would happen to them if they chose to eat sugary drinks, and what would change if they stopped drinking them. If an individual has all of the information available to them, then I think that it is then up to them whether they want to take notice of the advice or continue to live their lives. As long as you are paying for your own health care and aren't costing anybody else money, then you're quite right and it is your choice. In my country though, everyone pays tax for the health service, and there are a lot of people being admitting to hospital with obesity related illnesses. If you pay for your hospital treatment then that's all perfectly fine.

I totally agree with you, to go as far a banning certain sized drinks it's insane. And it's like you said all these people who are so worried about them making people fat, there is a simple solution for those people, don't drink the sugary drinks.