And it won't stop there.
What other behaviors with health and social costs should we be considering banning?
One of the prime-time stars at the Democratic National Convention was Sandra Fluke, infamous for her starring role in arguing why the rest of us should be footing the bill for her birth control.
What I don't understand is why the unmarried Ms. Fluke should be permitted to have unprotected sex in the first place, if the social goal is to promote general health and contain health care costs. There is no greater cost to society today than the spread of social diseases combined with the social costs of unplanned and single parenthood. The cost of sugary drinks can't even compare to that.
Since we've clearly decided that it's now the government's responsibility for the health and cost for these problems, logically it certainly isn't birth control we should be buying people, or sugary drinks the first things we should be banning.
