Libertarian Nick Gillespie on Stossel gets into a fight with MeMe Roth, a Health Nazi who wants to control everyone’s lives so they live according to what she thinks is best for them and totally owns her ass.
Last year when he was still working at ABC, John Stossel made the case that we should pay for our own health care because insurance makes it more expensive:
Here is the full episode of the first clip if you’re interested:
More from Stossels Blog:
New York is considering limits on salt and already has banned serving trans fat in restaurants. The ban extends to soup kitchens for the homeless, where perfectly good donated food gets thrown in the trash because it might contain trans fat.
Soda is the latest battlefield. New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed a $465 million excise tax on the syrup that sweetens soft drinks. CCF explains why taxing soda is a bad idea:
There are ideological reasons, scientific reasons, and policy reasons.
From the ideological point of view, [taxes should not] be a tool for social engineering, to change people’s behaviors.
People draw the parallel with tobacco, but there’s a huge chasm of a difference between the two. There’s an incontrovertible link between tobacco and serious diseases. Soda is one of a plethora of products that are overused by some people, but there’s nothing wrong with it per se.
There’s not a shred of evidence that shows that [a soda tax] will work. All the studies show that it will have no impact on obesity rates.
The food police point out that there is evidence that millions of Americans would live longer if they ate less salt and sugar. While that may be true, it is another problem with government’s one-size-fits-all rules: I and millions of others have low blood pressure, and no weight problem. We get no health benefit from the food police’s restrictions — just less choice and food that doesn’t taste as good.
