• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Let’s have a writing contest, you guys. Now that a Trump appointee is against it, let’s all think up reasons for why subsidized high-fructose corn syrup sold as food is not only a good thing but actually a basic human right.

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        18 days ago

        I’m not saying we should ban these things, I’m just saying we shouldn’t be subsidizing them and purchasing them with public funds. If poor people want to buy this stuff with their own money that’s their right.

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          17 days ago

          I’m just saying we shouldn’t be subsidizing them and purchasing them with public funds.

          Then start with the ag subsidies, not the tiny joy that poor people can wring from life.

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          17 days ago

          Ditching subsidies is a start.

          I would tax them into oblivion like cigarettes. Hits the poor first still, but it would shift consumption habits rather than ban them outright.