New York smoking ban in Public Places!

As of tomorrow, New York City will ban smoking in public parks beaches and other public areas. While the main tenet of this blog is that State and local governments should have broad powers while the Federal government is limited to those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution, this act of the New York City Council and Mayor Bloomberg are an overreach of its powers. I admit that I enjoy smokeless bars, but such a broad prohibition of a legal substance is an abuse of process. I am not a smoker, but I have to support their right to smoke. It was only 90 years ago that this country tried to prohibit a commonly used substance. That didn't work out very well and I cannot see this ending much better.

But this is only one example of the progressive agenda rampaging through New York City. The issue is that as New York City pursues this agenda, it clearly becomes less and less competitive as a state. Almost every source indicates that people are moving out of New York because it is unaffordable to live here.
Some in the Federal government are trying to apply this progressive agenda to the rest of the country. In my opinion, this is the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing on a larger scale expecting different results. The greatness of this Country has also come from the recognition that we are a country of different states, with different people wanting different things.
 
- Publius