Mr. Bohn,
Bogus, sir? The commissars in NYC who actually shoved through the trans-fat ban might not have been directly elected, but their biggest cheerleader — namely Hizzoner Bloomberg — surely was. (That is, when he can spare a moment from chasing down smokers and other misguided souls.) Last I checked New Yorkers love him.
My larger point was that identifying a government’s nannying idiocies is fine as far as it goes — but let’s both find out why this is going on (I’m rather skeptical that “cultural encouragement” does the trick) and better do something about it, e.g., at least vote the SOBs out.
On that score, your sadness that “those people are allowed to vote” strikes a rather authoritarian note. Can we not agree that convincing them to vote along more libertarian lines might be preferable?
