Mayor Mike Bloomberg is famous for curbing the city’s smoking, soda, and greasy food habits with legislation, but New Yorkers are now wondering whether Bloomberg has set his next target on a different vice: alcohol.
A 50-question survey focusing on New Yorkers’ drinking habits is being formulated by the Department of Health, and will be used to try and understanding alcohol use and abuse in the city through telephone surveys, according to the mayor’s office.
“The focus of what they ask is about underage drinking. They’re working on the survey.
There is no legislation at this time, they’re working to get a handle on what is happening primarily with underage drinking,” said a spokesman for Bloomberg.
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Good for Bloomberg, hope he puts heavy taxes on booze, cigarettes and other luxury items.
Perhaps he can ban comfortable chairs – reduce the number of “couch potatoes”????
Even better, ban mechanized transport (subways, buses, cars, etc.) to force everyone to walk everywhere – healthier, especially since there won’t be any pollution from motor vehicles.
He could end this “city that does not sleep” idea. People need more sleep. How about a curfew around 10 p.m.– mandatory “light out, get to bed”– eight hours mandatory sleep for everyone?
He could even try to ban crime, especially white collar financial crimes – though that might cause mass unemployment (for the crooks, the prosecutors, etc.).
To lazerc says: and other people that don’t understand. I’m asking you Mechilah before I’m going to explain how foolish your post is. As they say in Yiddish A Bee G’Ret.
Now to what you wrote. You claim that you wish that the Mayor taxes Booze Cigarettes, and other luxury items. Now you made one big statement out of it.
Let’s say if you would want to break it down. Lets start with Alcohol.
Yosel makes a Simcha he needs to Put 35 bottles of a $10 wine on each table and thats only if he want to go cheap. Then he needs some schnapps for l’Chaim So now just because you decided he has to pay more in taxes then the wine is worth he has to spend so much more because LazerC thinks its a good thing to have high tax on Alcohol.
Now let’s go to Cigarettes, people that smoke get there smokes were they can get it cheap. Basically, it drives business out of the city. It makes it hard on shop owners.
I’m not talking about health now, because the city doesn’t want cigarettes to go away. Its a gold mine for revenue.
Now the last one, Luxury items, simple as that. you tell me what is a luxury, a Manicure could be a luxury and it could be a health thing, depends how you look at it. Berl makes a kidush for his fifth child. Do you suggest the bakery taxes the cream cake because he could give simple sponge cake? Who decides what’s a luxury for who? Can I go through your grocery list and see what important and what not? I’ll tell you what you should return and what you should keep. How dose it sound? Not nice, exactly. And that is exactly what Mayor is doing.
If you look at pictures of the protest against the 16 once drinks not only fat people are there. And thousands of people are protesting the FDA and local governments as we speak for raising tobacco tax. Not because they smoke. Because of their rights.
Making laws and raising taxes are two different things. If young adults are drinking to much booze then we need to look in to that. But taxes hurt You, ME and Everyone else.
Just my take on it.
lazerc do you work for Bloomberg? What’s wrong with you? Is it a sin to the state to enjoy oneself?
lazerc must be a Obama loving tax and spend lib
Prohibition was repealed because it didn’t work. Bloomberg should lay off regulating everyone’s lives and just run the city like a regular mayor.