Soft-Core Fascism isn't advanced via swinging batons or unjust arrests, it pilfers our liberties and property rights one little nibble and sip at a time, with occasional big gulps.
Just as the Supreme Court will toss out Obamacare for lack of a limiting principle, the social engineering bans and taxes on our food should be tossed. If government is allowed to ban or tax food choices to coerce or discourage behavior, what stops them from taking that same logic and forcing mandatory yoga in the town square? How about a national bedtime? How about a minimum required amount of broccoli with each meal?
Sound absurd? Well, so did the transfat ban in NYC. So does the 16 OZ. drink size limit being contemplated in NYC.
Funny how liberals and progressives get excited about the fact that tax incentives and disincentives matter - when their agenda demands it, yet.....when we speak of keeping tax rates lower to raise revenue, they become mathematically challenged. The Laffer curve is real, whether we're talking about discouraging smoking or encouraging economic activity, investment, and jobs growth.
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Soft-Core Fascism isn't advanced via swinging batons or unjust arrests, it pilfers our liberties and property rights one little nibble and sip at a time, with occasional big gulps. Just as the Supreme Court will toss out Obamacare for lack of a limiting principle, the social engineering bans and taxes on our food should be tossed. If government is allowed to ban or tax food choices to coerce or discourage behavior, what stops them from taking that same logic and forcing mandatory yoga in the town square? How about a national bedtime? How about a minimum required amount of broccoli with each meal? Sound absurd? Well, so did the transfat ban in NYC. So does the 16 OZ. drink size limit being contemplated in NYC. Funny how liberals and progressives get excited about the fact that tax incentives and disincentives matter - when their agenda demands it, yet.....when we speak of keeping tax rates lower to raise revenue, they become mathematically challenged. The Laffer curve is real, whether we're talking about discouraging smoking or encouraging economic activity, investment, and jobs growth.