Nanny State New York City is Bad for Business
28 September 2012
Michelle Minton, Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses how New York City's big-soda ban will do nothing to solve obesity, further entrench the idea that New York is bad for business, and which begs the question: Who has the right to decide what you consume?
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