https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/drop-iced-tea-back-away/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 25 May 2017 00:10:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/drop-iced-tea-back-away/comment-page-1/#comment-345813 Thu, 25 May 2017 00:10:54 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=64536#comment-345813 […] According to coverage at places like NPR and CNN, an innovative campaign in Howard County, Maryland “provides a road map for other communities to reduce consumption of sugary drinks.” Not so fast, I argue in my new Washington Examiner piece: the suburban county in question is not remotely typical of America as a whole, the Howard County Unsweetened campaign blurred public and private boundaries in a dubious way, and the whole enterprise generated a deserved political pushback. While the plan, promoted by the local Horizon Foundation, might not have been all bad, “it sowed divisiveness, put government resources to improper purpose, and rested on a premise of frank paternalism. When it arrives in your community, you might want to respond as you might to a second pitcher of cola — by pushing it away with a polite, ‘no thanks.’” [cross-posted from Overlawyered] […]

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