Nanny Doomberg, The Absolute Shalls & Food Tyranny

Even though Nanny Doomberg was so preciously slapped down by an African-American, Liberal Democrat judge, whose Honorary Campaign Chairman was Charlie Rangel and campaign was cheerleaded loudly by New York's first - and only - African-American mayor, David Dinkins, who the Left desperately and humourously attempted to characterise as a "FauxNewsBot" yesterday, neither he nor they have abandoned their hopes and dreams of controlling what people eat and drink...all for "the common good," ya know?!?!

“If you want to affect behavior, taxes are a more reasonable path to follow. For states facing an unacceptable increase in obesity and/or child diabetes, other countries have found that higher taxes on certain products do influence buying decisions.” 

bayam on March 12, 2013 at 3:05 PM

What happened to Denmark’s “Fat Tax”?

"Denmark said Saturday it would scrap a fat tax it introduced a little over a year ago in a world first, saying the measure was costly and failed to change Danes’ eating habits.

“The fat tax and the extension of the chocolate tax — the so-called sugar tax — has been criticised for increasing prices for consumers, increasing companies’ administrative costs and putting Danish jobs at risk,” the Danish tax ministry said in a statement.

“At the same time it is believed that the fat tax has, to a lesser extent, contributed to Danes travelling across the border to make purchases,” it added.

“Against this background, the government and the (far-left) Red Green Party have agreed to abolish the fat tax and cancel the planned sugar tax,” the ministry said.

Denmark’s centre-left minority government is made up of the Social Democrats, Social Liberals and Socialist People’s Party, and requires support from other parties to pass legislation in parliament.

The government and the Red Greens reached the agreement as part of their negotiations on the 2013 budget bill.

The previous right-wing government introduced the fat tax in October 2011 to limit the population’s intake of fatty foods.

According to the Danish National Health and Medicines Authority, 47 percent of Danes are overweight and 13 percent are obese.

“Now we need to try to do something else to address public health,” Food Minister Mette Gjerskov said, news agency Ritzau reported.

The fat tax has been levied on all products containing saturated fats — from butter and milk to pizzas, oils, meats and pre-cooked foods — in a costing system that Denmark’s Confederation of Industries has described as a bureaucratic nightmare for producers and outlets.

The measure added 16 kroner per kilo of saturated fats in a product.

So, let’s review: Taxes that are designed to change people’s behaviour:

1. Don’t work;

2. Are a bureaucratic nightmare for business; and

3. Cost jobs.

Now, if you are a deranged Socialist or an Absolute Shall with Borderline Puritan Disorder (BPD), then, well, none of that matters…

So, damn the fat & sugar tax torpedoes, full speed ahead!

It's "for the children."  Ya know???

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky: It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”

- Mark Twain 

 "After Prohibition, after everyone had seen how devastating it was to morals, to policing, to government.  It was really a failure.  People are picking up the pieces trying to make sense of it.  The key thing, though, about this picking up the pieces after Prohibition, was the same God that laughs at our folly -- and there was folly in Prohibition -- still holds us responsible, still wants us to build a better society, to build a better world, and doesn't disdain human endeavour.   And, I think that post-Prohibition, you were picking up the pieces trying to find a moral framework to build a better America, but without quite so much of the pride, arrogance and self-assurance that the Prohibitionists had."

- Martin Marty, Theologian

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." 

- CS Lewis

 

"Very little good has ever been done by the Absolute Shall."

- Anonymous American clergyman, 19th century 

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