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Originally Posted by joeydb
OK - how many conservatives are telling you how much soda you are not allowed to have?
Ironically, if you're on welfare, the conservatives are paying for the soda and everything else...
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Technically, the proposed law doesn't limit how much soda an individual can drink; it limits the sizes certain companies can sell. There's nothing to stop an individual from buying two 16-oz sodas if that's what he wants to do. Or five, or ten, or twenty.
So the restriction is on companies, not actual individuals. Corporations spend a lot of money researching how to get people to consume more; the massive increase in portion size is evidence of how successful they are. I imagine Bloomberg is figuring the psychology behind how we purchase works both ways.
I'm old enough I can remember when McDonalds didn't serve their fries in boxes.