NYC Could Require Anti-Smoking Signs At Retailers - wcbstv.com
Bloomberg is the perfect embodiment of modern villainy. He’s the billionaire who wasn’t content running his own business, but now wants to run yours. New York isn’t his hometown; it’s his sandbox, and New Yorkers are the sand. His quest for a third term is more than weird; his Hertz rental is up, but he won’t take his hands off the wheel, insisting that it’s his car, and he’ll get out of it when he so chooses.
When the Government forces you to put large signs up in your business, it’s not just the cost that’s troublesome. It’s not just the aesthetic which is ruined. No, the worst of it is that the Government is forcing speech upon you. It was one thing for the Government to tell a business owner that he can’t allow smoking, regardless of the business owner’s own preferences; it is something wholly different, and even worse, for the Government to force him to denounce smoking even if he likes it.
Bloomberg doesn’t believe in autonomy, he believes in autocracy. Autocracy is fine for the autocrat—it’s lousy for everyone else. Perhaps that’s why he’s so desperate to keep his job, lest he find himself on the less desirable side of the divide.
