He saved his worst ban for last. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s nanny-state policies have left a trail of damage. His defeated soda ban, the ban on food donations to homeless shelters and other antics have cost New Yorkers money, jobs, food choices, and even their freedom to give charity.
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Greg Gutfeld is angry, and rightly so, because “vaping” electronic cigarettes is harmless to anyone around them.
The term “Greater New York” was applied, unofficially, to the 1898 consolidation that produced the present city of New York, which brought together the present five boroughs (counties). When consolidated, much of the city of New York was agricultural. As time went on, the term “Greater” came to apply to virtually any large city and its environs, not just New York. By 2010, Greater New York had expanded to somewhere between 19 million and 23 million residents, depending on the definition.
Mayor Bloomberg’s going out with one last ban. The City Council, with the administration’s strong backing, is rushing through a law to treat the vapor from e-cigarettes like tobacco smoke under the city’s “Smoke-Free Air Act.” The use of e-cigs, a k a “vaping,” would be forbidden in indoor and outdoor locations wherever smoking is banned.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In[...]
Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Move to Restrict Devices that Help Smokers Quit
Education · Featured · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Even if Randi Weingarten isn’t NYC’s next school chancellor, she might as well be.
Featured · Regulation · Taxes
[Mayor] Bloomberg stands accused of not letting the public see how his team made various nanny-state laws and regulations from his (failed) soda ban to his rules against donating food to city-run homeless shelters.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
Underemployment in the states is highest in some Western and Midwestern states.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
By the middle of October, if everything stays on schedule, Mexico’s legislators may well prove that they haven’t learned a thing from policies that have been tried and failed, from Denmark to New York City.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s aggressive nanny-state policies — such as his crusades against trans fats and large-size sodas — have been annoying and, at times, unconstitutional. While some of[...]
Environment/Energy · Regulation
My latest blog post on the impending ban on the incandescent lightbulb has garnered quite a bit of discussion on Facebook here and here. The Facebook discussion, especially at my[...]
Economics · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
Major news outlets are reporting that some New York City workers have admitted intentionally crippling the city by doing a lousyjob — and sometimes doing nothing — to plow away[...]
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