@bkcunningham Yes, but we are also a government of, for, and by the people, and if you haven’t noticed, many people are ignorant enough to act against their own self interests, or to not even know what their self interests are.
Imagine that you eat nothing but McDonalds and you put away three Big Macs for lunch and dinner, along with a 10-piece McNuggets, large fries, and a soft drink large enough to have an undertow. To many Americans, McDonalds is what makes them fat; they won’t even think about considering the possibility that maybe the fact that they eat like pigs and don’t watch their calorie, fat, or sodium intakes is the real culprit there.
It would be nice to think that if you just put he information out there that people would make teh right decisions, but realistically, that won’t happen. How many people do you know that honestly read the nutritional information on what they eat? It’s right there on the wrapper/box/bottle, but it’s easier to blame someone else and then demand government intervention than to accept personal responsibility.