Monday, June 30, 2008

And here you thought it was just selective posting by me

Welcome to Chicago, the large US city with the most paternalistic government. This is completely unsurprising, since the city council is just a bunch of busybodies, as I've documented over and over again:

Chicago reigns supreme when it comes to treating its citizens like children (Las Vegas topped our rankings as America's freest city). Chicagoans pay the second-highest cigarette tax in the country, and the sixth-highest tax on alcohol. Chicago has more traffic-light cameras than any city in America (despite studies questioning their effectiveness), restricts cell phone use while driving, and it's quickly moving toward a creepy public surveillance system similar to London's.

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