Ira Stoll on the War on Trans-Fats
An emblem of the arrogance of central planning that characterizes the Obama administration.
Having failed to enact stricter gun control measures or oust the dictator of Syria, Bashar Assad, the Obama administration is going after a new target—margarine. Ira Stoll says that as someone who grew up eating margarine, the notion that the federal government is preparing officially to ban it, strikes him both as truly bizarre and emblematic of the arrogance of central planning that characterizes the Obama administration.
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