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Default Another ban on Big Gulps!

"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Cheri > wrote:
> : "Alice Faber" > wrote in message
> : ...
>
> : > Personally, I don't like outright banning of the big-gulp size.
> However,
> : > and this is a big however, I would like vendors to be required to sell
> a
> : > single serving (i.e., a soda can typically is labeled as having 2
> : > servings, so a single serving would be 8 oz) at a proportional price,
> so
> : > that there is no economic incentive for ordering a huge soda (or
> juice,
> : > or whatever).
>
> : It's not the banning of the Big Gulp that bothers me at all, I was never
> : much of a soda drinker even in the smallest size, now only ice water,
> but
> : it's just one more foot in the door with taking away personal choices
> IMO.
> : If they want to sell it in trash can sizes and people want to buy
> it...it's
> : not the governments business, and while we're at it, neither is their
> : interference in baseball! :-)
>
> : Cheri
>
> How do you feel about the State requirements to have automobile insurance?
>
> Wendy


There is a LAW against driving without insurance. There is no law against
buying a large sized soda...yet!

Cheri