Danish Abolish Fat Tax – Mayor Bloomberg Takes Food from the Homeless.

Every single classical liberal / libertarian and Austrian school economist could have told the Danish government this would have been exactly the result from a fat tax:

The Danish government has said it intends to abolish a tax on foods which are high in saturated fats. … authorities said the tax had inflated food prices and put Danish jobs at risk. … The ministry said one of the effects of the fat tax was that some Danes had begun crossing the border into Germany to stock up on food there.

What does it say about politicians who think they are somehow qualified to run our lives for us that they still can’t figure this basic stuff out. Quite apart from the philosophical fascism it connotes, anathema to Western classical liberalism.

Every politician please take note: you have no right to interfere in the lifestyle choices of individuals. You have no right to put the iron fist of state into the voluntary market transactions of consenting adults. None. We make our own choices far better than you can. And if you are justifying a fat tax like this to save taxpayer money in the public health system, then that is actually the justification of a private health system where we take the responsibility of our own lives. The moment you turned your attention from the only rightful role of state, protecting individuals from each other, to protecting individuals from themselves, you turned our social democracies into social(alist) democracies, that now careen us down the road to our serfdom.

We are not children.

Please.  Please. Just. Go. Away.

… And in other hilarious news, as economist Don Boudreaux points out, in a measure impossible to spoof, Czar Bloomberg of New York has banned food donations to the homeless, because the City officials haven’t the resources ‘to inspect donated foods to ensure that the fat, salt, and fiber contents of these foods meet the Mayor’s exacting standards.  So no donating food to hungry New Yorkers!’

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Right, thank God it’s Sunday, where’s that bottle, before the excise tax puts vineyards out as well …

Food Czars: New York City is Police State Central

The Stalin of New York, also known as Mayor Bloomberg, after having successfully banned tobacco from his fiefdom, and then trans-fats from restaurants and eateries, now has His eyes set on banning super-sized drinks and sugar content.

Just like those who would seek to tax food choices, a tax or a ban on food choices is a tax or ban on choice, period. It's a fundamental attaxk on freedom.  It doesn't get any more basic than controlling the food supply.

There's never an excuse for a politician having this much power over an individual. None. Because once they think they've been given a moral mandate, Collectivists like Czar Bloomberg will never stop their immoral crusade on choice.

... First they came for the tobacco, then they came for the trans-fats, now they come for the sugary drinks ... what next? There's no end to what the self-anointed Czars can justify banning. Coffee? Goner, ultimately. Alcohol? Yep, gone soon. Burnt toast (carcinogenic), will have to regulate little limiters into toasters ...

I think we should ban politicians: let's start by banning politicians who would ban life choices, because they're evil walking.

Update.

And now National Socialist, Judith Collins, is lining up to join the compulsion touters. She's happy to raise alcohol excise taxes In New Zealand by 50%. Taxes were never meant to influence life choices. And not one editorial in the MSM raising the principled argument against a government exercising such inappropriate powers behind the IRon Drape. Not one.


Update 2.

I wake up this Queen's Birthday Monday to find a veritable, and unseemly, orgy of New Zealand MP's jack-booting along their immoral campaign on choice.

Plus if that's not bad enough, look at the typical comment - anonymously, of course - made to my principled argument against Collins's stated desire to increase excise taxes on alcohol:

We'd all rather you opted out Mr Hubbard, that way we wouldn't need to listen to your incessant Libertarian whining. Why dont you and your 3 mates do a Tamaki and go and found a new Randite cite somewhere south of Gore?

That anonymous coward's vote has as much influence over my life, as my own does. Democracy; it's way past it's use-by date. My next post will be how my rights to liberty are not inalienable, unfortunately, counter to what both the Founding Fathers and Ayn Rand thought, and thus how my pursuit of happiness is lost to the unprincipled thuggery of wowsers and compulsion touters like this. Then I'm going to turn the light of truth on this increasingly tyrannous thing called democracy. I'm pretty over it all.


Question for the wowsers and compulsion touters: why do you think we have teenagers with no sense of self responsibility that conduct this ludicrous behaviour? Excise taxes that destroy my responsible enjoyment of alcohol merely treat a symptom, not the cause.