Nanny State: NYC considers alcohol bans

[chanel]

Happy hour in the city could end if Department of Health policy party-poopers go ahead with a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants, sources told The Post.

“It’s absolutely been discussed,” confirmed a department source. “It goes to show you the spirit with which they operate. Everyone is a child.”

High-level conversations have gone beyond merely “throwing pencils on the ceiling and seeing what sticks,” another Health source revealed.

Sources said the happy-hour ban is being pushed by the agency’s marathon-running boss, Commissioner Thomas Farley, and is serious enough for one source to say the alcohol lobby had better find itself a good lawyer.

Agency spokesman Sam Miller denied existing “plans to pursue any policy around discount-alcohol sale.”

But sources said the anti-booze sentiment at the agency has reached a fever pitch, with officials recently asking state officials about the “legality of liquor in ice cream,” referring to potent products infused with bourbon, rum and tequila.

A prohibition on discounted drinks is solidly in line with Farley’s goals, which he outlined in his “Take Care New York 2012” report.

n January, The Post revealed another sobering DOH scheme — a plan to reduce the “density’’ of alcohol outlets.

If a ban is enacted, it would put the Big Apple on par with 19 states that prohibit happy hour.

Read more: City mulls happy hour ban - NYPOST.com

And people are worried about a Mormon in power?

 

[Mr. H.]

Happy hour boosts menu sales. It's not just about the drinking.

 

[Intense]

Key word "Discount". The City want's a bigger piece of the pie, and is lashing out because it feels cheated. Another Mental Disorder.

 

[Katzndogz]

The left is going to call this the GOP war on happy hour and fun.

 

[Vel]

So now, not only does the government want to tell you what you can sell, but how much you have to sell it for.

 

[Katzndogz]

Have you noticed that for all the left accuses the right of wanting laws that prevent personal choice, it's the left that's actually doing it.

Except when it comes to drugs.

 

[paulitician]

Nanny/Police Staters created 40,000 new Laws in 2011 alone. Big Brother just gets bigger & bigger by the year. I'm not quite sure why so many Americans have become Authority-Worshipping sheep. Maybe this explains it a bit?...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPnDZ1Txlo]SCHOOL SUCKS: The American Way - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Yet another reason why I left that shit hole back in the nineties....

 

[Oddball]

But sources said the anti-booze sentiment at the agency has reached a fever pitch, with officials recently asking state officials about the “legality of liquor in ice cream,” referring to potent products infused with bourbon, rum and tequila.

Booze AND trans fat?

I'm surprised there isn't jail time involved.

 

[Oddball]

Nanny/Police Staters created 40,000 new Laws in 2011 alone. Big Brother just gets bigger & bigger by the year. I'm not quite sure why so many Americans have become Authority-Worshipping sheep. Maybe this explains it a bit?...

SCHOOL SUCKS: The American Way - YouTube

Why do you hate freedom?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Those morons in NYC keep voting these people into office so let them have what they deserve.

 

[paulitician]

But sources said the anti-booze sentiment at the agency has reached a fever pitch, with officials recently asking state officials about the “legality of liquor in ice cream,” referring to potent products infused with bourbon, rum and tequila.

Booze AND trans fat?

I'm surprised there isn't jail time involved.

Don't give em any ideas.

 

[Crackerjack]

Seriously, why does anyone still want to live there? Overpriced, overtaxed, overpopulated, can't barely own a firearm, now they're going all Nazi over liquor ...

 

[strollingbones]

lets just remove all liquor laws...why not....i like to drive and drink

 

[paulitician]

Socialists/Progressives are a prettty confused bunch. I see most of them pushing for legalizing Marijuana 24/7, while at the same time pushing for this kind of Nanny/Police State nonsense. They need to make up their minds and get real.

 

[Oddball]

Socialists/Progressives are a prettty confused bunch. I see most of them pushing for legalizing Marijuana 24/7, while at the same time pushing for this kind of Nanny/Police State nonsense. They need to make up their minds and get real.

The first rationale that comes out of their mouths viz. pot decrim is tax revenue.

They don't really give a flying fuck over the "keep your laws off my body" aspect of it at all.

 

[whitehall]

Look at the offensive and gross anti-smoking ads, it's all part of the democrat party's brave new world of federal health care. Nobody read the 3,000 page law but you can bet your ass-ets that preventative enforcement is part of it. If the government supplies health care they assume the right to dictate behavior.

 

[Katzndogz]

Socialists/Progressives are a prettty confused bunch. I see most of them pushing for legalizing Marijuana 24/7, while at the same time pushing for this kind of Nanny/Police State nonsense. They need to make up their minds and get real.

Libs believe that being high on marijuana makes someone a better driver, a better airline pilot, a better machinist. Just better at everything.

 

[paulitician]

Socialists/Progressives are a prettty confused bunch. I see most of them pushing for legalizing Marijuana 24/7, while at the same time pushing for this kind of Nanny/Police State nonsense. They need to make up their minds and get real.

The first rationale that comes out of their mouths viz. pot decrim is tax revenue.

They don't really give a flying fuck over the "keep your laws off my body" aspect of it at all.

Excellent point. You nailed it.

 

[paulitician]

Nanny/Police Staters created 40,000 new Laws in 2011 alone. Big Brother just gets bigger & bigger by the year. I'm not quite sure why so many Americans have become Authority-Worshipping sheep. Maybe this explains it a bit?...

SCHOOL SUCKS: The American Way - YouTube

Why do you hate freedom?

Yeah, the 5:00 mark of the video really does sum it all up. Most Americans only know Authority-Worship. And now here we are. What a sad mess.