George Will Says Paternalistic Health Measures are Bad Policy and Don't Work

The context is efforts to limit the consumption of sugary soft drinks, which Will assures us will not work and are a waste of government money. Will is appalled that the Centers for Disease Control gave a $3 million grant to the State of Rhode Island to study how procurement strategies in schools and other public institutions can be altered to reduce the consumption of sugary soft drinks.

It would be difficult to determine whether this $3 million grant (approximately 0.00008 percent of feder...