People may say they hate the nanny state, but they sure do live like they need a nanny.
In New Zealand, a new government scrapped the ban in 2008, saying it was an example of the "nanny state philosophy".
And if you are a died-in-the-wool progressive doing everything you can to expand the nanny state, feel free to ignore the movie.
Isn't it the case, since the BSE crisis, that the old nanny state approach of saying, "Don't worry, we've got it in hand" doesn't work any more?
Is he going to provide tax breaks to get a nanny for all the children (wait, that would not work because it would then be a nanny state).
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The first of its kind in the country, the restriction has sparked reaction from pizzeria counters to late-night talk shows, celebrated by some as a bold attempt to improve people's health and derided by others as another "nanny state" law from Bloomberg during his 11 years in office.
We also noted the predictable opposition of nanny-state activists and academics who cringed at the non-governmental standard setting and assertion of commercial free speech rights.
It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.
Bloomberg justifies his nanny-state interventions by pointing to the social costs of obesity, but there is no direct causal link between obesity and 20-ounce sodas with sugar in them, and neither would it be anyone's business at all except for the increasing government control and subsidies for health care.
Theoretically, budgeting would mean that adopting a new nanny-state regulation that may offer a minuscule improvement in safety would be directly weighed against the much greater and more cheaply achieved benefits of (just for example, there are loads of them) painting white lines down the middle of unmarked public country roads.
The employer must withhold state and federal income taxes and social-security taxes from the nanny's wages weekly and remit them to the various tax authorities every quarter, as well as dealing with the agencies that run unemployment-insurance and injury-insurance schemes.
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