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I ask this with love, as a registered Republican: When will my fellow Republicans bale stop saying silly things against paternalism? My text for this plaintive homily is Mayor Bloomberg's proposed health code amendment limiting the size of sugary soda pop servings to cups of 16 ounces or smaller. The proposal has been met with angry protests about the nanny state's intrusions into people's private choices bale . State senator Tom Davis (Republican, SC) even denounced me as Orwellian for my statement to an AP reporter stating that government had the constitutional power, despite the 14th Amendment, to enact paternalistic regulations controlling the sale of food and drugs.
I am inclined to think that denouncing Bloomberg's proposal as Orwellian is like ridiculing the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act as a Stalinist plot or attacking "no smoking" signs in public buildings as a Maoist re-education campaign. bale Such hyper-ventilated rhetoric against ordinary regulation is making us Republicans look absurd. So long as government subsidizes healthcare costs, regulations to discourage obesity are society's self-protection, not nosy paternalism. Principled conservative will argue that these subsidies should be reduced so that insurance premiums will reflect the risk of the insured's behavior . Fair enough: I myself endorsed Candidate McCain's bale proposal to end the tax exemption for employee health benefits .
But no one believes that such subsidies will be eliminated entirely: As Mark (14:7) tells us, the poor we will always have with us, and, in the libertarian paradise envisioned by the Cato Institute and Philip Klein, there will be those who cannot afford insurance at the market-priced premium offered by insurers. We will either provide in