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lawhawk1/11/2010 7:23:35 am PST

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area, where the nanny staters are busy once again trying to limit your food choices. This time, they’re pushing to limit salt content in food. Let’s just ignore that table salt is fortified with iodine to prevent thyroid deficiencies and since many people don’t eat food with sufficient iodine content, it prevents other illnesses. Salt is also what makes food taste good, helps bread rise, acts as a preservative and is critical to brining poultry and koshering meat. It would also put bagels and lox on the chopping block since it’s needed in curing fish.

The same went for the warnings to stay out of the sun - because it causes skin cancer. The same folks forgot that sun exposure is critical to Vitamin D formation and is the only reliable source of Vitamin D, which is critical to preventing all manner of illnessses.

Bloomberg and Paterson are also now looking to hike the cigarette taxes again, to raise money for health care programs, but the revenues will fall short as the hikes deter people from smoking and it’s reached a tipping point where the smokers can’t provide the tax revenues needed for those programs (and states, including NY) have already tapped out the tobacco settlement funds.