Reason TV has a new video in their great Nanny-of-the-Month series. The winner is a San Francisco politician who pushed through legislation to ban restaurants like McDonald’s from including toys in happy meals.
Here’s a great idea: How about banning politicians from trying to tell us how to live our lives? Our Founding Fathers surely would agree, but I guess that’s asking too much in the modern era. But is it too much to ask that maybe politicians focus on real issues, such as undoing the mistakes they’ve already made?
If Supervisor Mar really cares about his city, he should be pushing legislation to reduce excessive pay, benefits, and pensions for bureaucrats. These are the policies that are pushing San Francisco closer to fiscal collapse with each passing day. When the city declares bankruptcy, I don’t think the average person will be overly concerned about whether McDonald’s is offering happy meals.
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McDonalds should just find a workaround to the ban. Here’s my idea: Sell the food of a happy meal in a regular bag, then give the option to purchase the toy and other stuff in a packet for maybe 25 cents.
I’ll bet even when the populace is up at 5am someday doing compulsory calisthenics, politicians will still find a way to be in poor physical shape themselves. Why are these people choosing our lifestyles for us?
If they really wanted to address the nutritional content of fast food, a good place to start would be farm subsidies. Eliminate the market distortions created by farm subsidies and the nutritional quality of all foods would increase, it would actually save money and preserve freedom.
But no, they are too afraid to attack the real issues, so they ban toys, which will change nothing except for the negative impact it has on businesses and freedom.