NY Soda ProhibitionFollow

Because it increases the cost of packaged beverages with minimal gain to the consumer.

I felt they should have just taxed it instead.

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I have met too many people who have no idea the harm they are doing to their health with their current diets and really don't care to listen to the Constant barrage of information that the Media throws at them. Then they are normally the same people who were never given a healthy meal growing up too. Their taste beds have been train to like all the prepackage food that their overwork mothers brought, because the ads said that they could serve their hungry rug rats in less then 30 minutes.

Are these people so dumb that the only way to prevent them from wrapping hamlike fists around yet another 44oz soda is to via legislative portion control, which forces them to heave and wheezes as they raise thier tired, bloated, frame to the counter to beg for another serving of soda. I assume these misshapen masses will be so dissuaded by the fear of extraneous excercise that they will cease their struggle for liquid and choke down their triple stacked burgers dry, resting their lard filled limbs for theIr arduous trek towards the door.

I like how your post is based on the presumption that they're not riding scooters. How naïve can you be?

Edited, Sep 14th 2012 1:44pm by Spoonless

That further proves my point that this is bad implementation. If they can scoot to the counter, all hope is lost.

Does Obamacare cover scooters for fatties?

Are these people so dumb that the only way to prevent them from wrapping hamlike fists around yet another 44oz soda is to via legislative portion control,

Yes. Also they decide elections, hence the current state of campaigning.

Anyone drinking a "dozen cans of soda a day" versus getting a couple 2 liters is already unconcerned with the cost of packaging.

Because it increases the cost of packaged beverages with minimal gain to the consumer.

There is no "cost of packaged beverages" it's all arbitrary. Soda costs about 9 cents per metric tonne to produce, it's distribution cost to most fast food outlets is only slightly higher. The "packaging" for it costs about 1 cent per drink.

What's the redesign? Are there places out there that sell 32oz fountain drinks but don't sell 16oz or 12oz sizes?

Not really in places this ban will affect.

That's what they should have done to begin with. The whole idea of simply banning certain sizes is mind-boggling stupid, as previously stated. Imagine a $0.05 tax on a 21oz or larger, and then assume for giggles that in NYC, 1 million medium or larger drinks are sold in a day. That's $50,000 in tax revenue per day. Missed opportunity indeed.

Edited, Sep 14th 2012 4:20pm by BrownDuck