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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (318988)1/5/2007 11:54:48 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (4) of 1573430
 
>If we come up with government healthcare, do we start means testing for it? As in if you're too rich you don't get it and do we test for drug abusers, smokers, and alcoholics and reject their govt free ride?

No. Even (ugh) conservatives get it! ;)

>New York already controls what you can eat, what's next?

New York is not controlling what you can eat. It's controlling what s**t restaurants can serve you. Understand that, other than making food potentially a few cents cheaper, removing trans fats doesn't change your actual eating experience at all. Trans fats are an artificial creation, used because they 1. save the restaurant a couple of cents on each burger, and 2. make you less full so you eat more and thus buy more. Fries made without trans fats taste the same as the ones made with them. If there were a real difference, I wouldn't so readily support the ban.

This is why I support the ban on restaurants using trans fats, but not on selling tobacco and alcohol -- despite the harm they cause, people do actually derive distinct benefit from those.

>Seems a slippery slope we cannot navigate. Sounds good, feels good, but will never work. Communism already failed once.

Capitalism has failed many times. Don't kid yourself.

-Z
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