Hyperbole like this is what makes those arguments ridiculous.
Or perhaps you don't know what Stalinism, Socialism and Communism is and see it everywhere, like witches in the Middle Ages
So yes, you see witches everywhere.
The best thing that can occur is that people like you have their dreams accomplished and live in that libertarian paradise but not being part of the 1% with power. Then you look what your ideology is, bullshit.
Socialists have always advocated the state making little, "lifestyle" decisions like this. The state "knows better", and you have lots of people agreeing.
Look at the top comment and its children comments on this story. You have people applauding this law and saying that people are too stupid to know when to not get a refill.
These are the same people that wring their hands about Trump being an authoritarian, but applaud stupid, nanny state laws like this.
The laissez faire regarding food in the US does not seem to work very well since the US is one of the worst developed country regarding obesity.
No definition of authoritarianism has ever defined there to be good or bad motivations for the laws, just that they are strict and limit personal freedom.
> did not hear that argument when countries are raising cigarette taxes.
You haven't?!? Then what arguments against raising cigarette taxes have you heard?
Of course it doesn't make state authoritarian, but adding points towards that direction on that axis.
Doesn't obesity prove, in this case, the state really does know better? You could argue people are free to be as obese as they want, but only knowingly imo. The actual problem is a lot of people don't realize they're basically being tricked into unhealthy obese living by MegaCorps wanting to get them hooked on their product.