San Francisco’s food police voted to override the mayor’s veto of its previous ban of the sales of certain foods in San Francisco. The new ordinance prohibits restaurants from selling food that contains more than 600 calories, 640 milligrams of sodium or that has more than 35% of its calories from fat.
The slow march toward the 24/7 nanny state continues as government takes away our freedom one right at a time. Los Angeles Times: “The city’s board of supervisors votes to forbid restaurants from giving away toys with meals that have high levels of calories, sugar and fat. San Francisco’s board of supervisors has voted . . . to ban most of McDonald’s Happy Meals . . . . The measure will make San Francisco the first major city in the country to forbid restaurants from offering a free toy with meals that contain more than set levels of calories, sugar and fat.”
The Volokh Conspiracy: “the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency doesn’t allow movie ads with guns in them.” UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh says “The policy is unconstitutional, at least as applied to movie ads, because it’s viewpoint-based.”
San Francisco Chronicle: “Sell a guinea pig, go to jail. That’s the law under consideration by San Francisco’s Commission of Animal Control and Welfare. If the commission approves the ordinance at its meeting tonight, San Francisco could soon have what is believed to be the country’s first ban on the sale of all pets except fish.”
The average annual salary of a City of San Francisco is $93,000. One third of its employees make over $100,000 a year. A retired deputy police chief got $516,118 in one year. The base salary for a SF fireman is $102,64. Twenty-eight city workers make over $250,000 a year. Investors Business Daily: “The city’s unions, which are powerful even by California standards, have produced a public-workers’ paradise financed by high taxes on tourists, businesses (San Francisco even has a 1.5% tax on payrolls) and regular folk . . . . “