There’s Big Government, Big Labor, Big Business and now—drum-roll please—something called Big Soda. At a news conference Wednesday at the state Capitol, five lawmakers introduced a package of bills to ban the sale of Big-Gulp-style soft drinks and impose a state tax on sugary drinks.
“Big Soda has profited off of life-threatening disease and suffering for too long,” intoned Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco).
These Nanny State efforts are commonplace, and provide fodder for people living in more-sensible locales. Look, they say, at how Sacramento politicians want to tax anything—and pose a constant threat to California’s business climate. That largely is true. Highly publicized limits on the use of everything from plastic bags to straws gain much-deserved ridicule, but obscure some of the biggest threats to Californians’ ability to live free and prosper.
Consider something we might call Big Justice. The term doesn’t have the same ring as Big Soda, but the California Supreme Court, in recent months, has proven itself more nettlesome than the Legislature. That takes some doing. Unlike lawmakers, who are usually are fairly forthright about their goals and intent, the justices have left most of us befuddled, writes Steven Greenhut.
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