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Fun Police Episode 2: The Billionaire Every prohibitionist movement needs its funders. Its moneymen. Usually, there are powerful industrialists who’ve made it big and are “giving back” by restricting choices of the little people. For popular movements against alcohol in the 1900s, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford were the principal philanthropists. Neoprohibitionists…
For years, we’ve covered the extent of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s multi-million dollar campaigns to try to shape the lives of ordinary consumers. What began as an erstwhile nanny state campaign on Big Gulps in New York City has ballooned into a massively funded operation that uses grants and NGO funding on…
Consumer Choice Radio, hosted by Yaël Ossowski (@YaelOss) & David Clement (@ClementLiberty). Environmental protesters continue their rail blockade in Canada and people don’t want to take it anymore CPAC and Washington, D.C. Mayor Big Gulp Michael Bloomberg making a huge ad push in North and South Carolina INTERVIEW: Fred Roeder, Managing Director, Consumer Choice Center:…
by Yaël Ossowski | Jun 30, 2017, 8:00 PM | Washington Examiner If we were to prioritize threats like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the world’s biggest enemies would reside in the bottoms of soda cans and within the lining of cigarettes. Launching his American Cities Initiative at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Annual…