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Originally Posted by dogzilla
Two problems with this.
First, what's to prevent somebody from buying something else from the approved food list, then selling it or trading it to get soda?
Second, if Bloomberg is successful at this, what's to stop him from trying to control sales of soda to the general public? New York has already tried one extension of nanny-state mentality by imposing a soda tax.
Also, this doesn't solve the obesity problem. As far as I know, ring dings and potato chips are not prohibited foods. Nor frozen pizzas, etc, etc.
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True, but I think it's okay for them to put restrictions on what government money can purchase. There are always ways around the law. Heck I think I read last week that some people were buying large quatities of bottled water, pouring out the water, and turning in the bottles for the deposit, so they could buy cigarettes, and beer... Well, at least they had to work for it, right?