Nanny State

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Nanny State

• Caitlin Faulkner
• Leina SinicropeTyler Pratt

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Summary of IssuesClassical Liberal

• Smoking
• I-901
• Ban smoking in public places
• Within 25 feet of any building opening
• In the United States, an estimated  24.1 of men
  and 19.2 of women are smokers
• Negatively effects businesses and consumers

• Fast Food/ Junk Food
• 7 of Americans eat at McDonalds daily
• Fat Tax
• Limits consumers choice
• Disproportionately effects low income consumers
• Unfairly labels food as unhealthy

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Summary of IssuesKeynesian/ Structuralist

• Smoking
• Social Costs
• Health Care
• 160 billion per year
• Smoking-related health costs amount 75.5 billion
  
• Productivity Loss
• 92 billion a year
• 5.5 million years of potential life

• Fast Food/ Junk Food
• 127 million adults are overweight, 60 million are
  obese
• Social Costs
• 75 billion in 2004
• U.S. businesses
• 2.4 billion in sick leave
• 1.8 billion life insurance
• 800 million for disability

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SolutionsClassical Liberal

• Smoking
• Let business decide whether they will allow
  smoking in their establishment
• Fast food
• Leave fast food/junk food alone
• People need to be properly informed of risks/
  benefits
• Individuals are responsible for their own
  healthcare

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AssumptionsClassical Liberal

• Individuals possess rational motivation
• Freedom of choice is key element of democracy
• The government solution to a problem is usually
  as bad as the problem
• - Milton Friedman

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Strengths/ WeaknessesClassical Liberals

• Strengths
• People get what they want
• Products are cheaper
• Limited restrictions on personal freedom
• Weaknesses
• Not everyone is responsible with their health
• Are we just going to let people suffer?
• Doesnt solve problems

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SolutionsKeynesian

• Cigarette taxes
• National
• Local
• Snack/ Fat taxes
• Enacted
• Proposed

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AssumptionsKeynesian

• In the long run we are all dead
• -JM Keynes
• The day is not far off when the economic problem
  will take the back seat where it belongs, and the
  arena of the heart and the head will be occupied
  or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the
  problems of life and of human relations, of
  creation and behavior and religion
• -JM Keynes

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Strengths/ WeaknessesKeynesian

• Strengths
• Reduces smoking
• Brings in revenue
• Weaknesses
• Smoking
• Infringes on freedoms
• Fast Food/ Junk Food
• Not guaranteed to be effective
• Burden on poor

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SolutionsStructuralist

• Smoking
• Money out of politics
• Are we on the right track?
• Fast Food
• Government subsidies
• PE classes
• Exercise
• I.E. Finland

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AssumptionsStructuralist

• In bourgeois society capital is independent and
  has individuality, while the living person is
  dependent and has no individuality
• - Karl Marx
• Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him.
  Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful
  business opportunity
• - Karl Marx

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Strengths/ WeaknessesStructuralist

• Strengths
• Eliminates exploitation
• Improves health
• Weaknesses
• Fear of too much government
• expensive

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Sources for Future

• Dawdy, Philip. Big Nanny is Watching You.
  Seattle Weekly. January 18, 2006.
• "Confronting a Rising Tide of Eating Disorders
  and   Obesity Treatment vs.Prevention and
  Policy"by Battle, Katherine E., and Kelly D.
  Brownell.
• www.capitalism.org
• Barker, Jeffrey M. "Smoking Ban Burns
  Businesses." Seattle Post-Intelligencer. April
  13,   2004.
• www.zmag.org