New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks

[lynne]

69. People will buy two just to prove a point -

- as most don't like being told what to do. It's the lousy side of human nature that will occur every time it's given a chance.

Let's go a step further - how will this be implemented and regulated? Soda police? Who pays for that? Many stores have soda's that are self-serve - who will monitor if you have a sugar free item or one with sugar? Will the store have to pay for a soda monitor? Will there be legal repercussions should the clerk allow someone to buy the wrong size sugared drink?

Or will the store have to have their machines retro-fitted with some new-fangled device to only allow 16 ozs. of a sugared drink to be dispensed at a time? Who will pay for the retro-fitting?

And - should they buy two drinks (And they will. I would even if I threw one away) - what does this do to the environment? Two plastic slurpee cups and two straws and two lids now to the landfill instead of one. Not very green, IMO.

No poo-poohing here. It's simply a very poorly thought out ban that borders on stupidity. No consideration was given as to if it would work - how it would be implemented - who would bear the burden of managing the law - how it would impact store employees - how it would impact the environment. And this is all before we even discuss if the government should be having its hand literally down people's throats.