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Additionally fines for not recycling are a pretty damn good idea since it costs towns huge amounts of money to deal with trash if they have full landfills,
Recyclables have value. My private trash hauler picks recyclables up for free because he gets paid for them. The city down the road that doesn't allow private haulers has fees...
The ban on super-sized sodas does nothing more than call attention to consumption of too much. Nothing precludes anyone from buying/drinking more than one.
Many states allow employers to fire people because they are overweight, smoke ( in their private life), consume alcohol ( in their private life) endorse different politics than their employer or buy the competitor's product.
If a person's size/weight impacts their ability to do their job, firing is reasonable.
Smoking, though a lifestyle issue, has an economic impact to an employer that provides health insurance. When you buy life insurance, the life insurance company will set your rates based on your health and lifestyle risks. If you are a skydiver your rates will be higher. So once again it is reasonable to discriminate against smokers.
Alcohol is another issue. But moderate use of alcohol typically correlates with good health. But abuse is a different story.
Both sides are guilty of this. Red states usually have strict alcohol laws and the majority of dry counties. The only really non restrictive places are Nevada and a few cities like New Orleans.
Absolutely. Conservatives can't complain about social engineering when they try themselves to make abortion access difficult.
Recyclables have value. My private trash hauler picks recyclables up for free because he gets paid for them. The city down the road that doesn't allow private haulers has fees...
The issue is not recyclables not having value the issue is people disposing of recyclables as though they are trash (improper sorting) e.g. why there are fines for not sorting your trash. Personally though I am a big fan of just having bottle bills since that tends to make people even more keen to sort their trash.
Sunscreen and transfats? Pah. You want real nanny-state laws? Try PA - the state with a Republican majority in the senate, and a Republican majority in the house, and a Republican governor.
Which nonetheless is still operating a monopoly on the sale of all alcoholic beverages. Despite that Governor's campaign pledge to abolish the state stores. Because, you know, 80 years after the end of prohibition, you can't trust adults to buy a bottle of chardonnay from a grocery store clerk.
Sunscreen and transfats? Pah. You want real nanny-state laws? Try PA - the state with a Republican majority in the senate, and a Republican majority in the house, and a Republican governor.
Which nonetheless is still operating a monopoly on the sale of all alcoholic beverages. Despite that Governor's campaign pledge to abolish the state stores. Because, you know, 80 years after the end of prohibition, you can't trust adults to buy a bottle of chardonnay from a grocery store clerk.
Yep. Give me nanny-state California any day, where any sober person of legal drinking age can buy a fifth of vodka at Safeway at 3am on a Sunday.
So its illegal in parts of Minnesota to get a little mud on your tires like Brad Paisley sings??? And banning Happy Meals. This is the kind of stuff liberals come up with while they refuse to crack down on illegal immigration and sentence violent murderers and drug dealers to death or life in prison!
Yep, blame it on liberals like George W. Bush.
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