Prepare for the coming taxes on all the “unhealthy” foods ‘shellie tells us not to eat.
It's for our own GOOD people!
They'll claim taxes on "unhealthy" foods will subsidize what they decide are "healthy" foods all while driving up the cost of food people want to eat. The poor will be even worse off and most of that revenue will be shifted into the general fund to be used on wasteful "progressive" schemes.
The idea of what's become called a "Twinkie tax" goes back to at least the early 1940s.
When MObama unveiled her "My Plate" sham, the site included a 7 day sample menu of healthy eating. I calculated what it would cost me to feed one person those meals on two of those days (Days 4 & 6). In one case, $44.42, in the other $49.95.
How many individuals are spending $18K on food per year?
In bizarre contrast, the FDA "food plans" (where they claim what food costs) top out at $4,200 per year for an adult male.
There is a mammoth chasm of a disconnect between their abstract cost claims and what they actually recommend as individual meals.
They are fundamentally unserious about providing cost effective, detailed guidance to those who need it the most.
Poor people are fat because fattier foods are less expensive. The solution is not subsidies! The solution is an economy that isn't anti-job.
Are they going to subsidize 95% lean ground beef, used in the Day 4 sample menu? That costs $7.30/lbs where I am. How do you produce enough ground beef that lean to meet all needs without driving up costs for cattle ranchers who need to worry about pollution regulations from dust clouds if there's a stampede?
These people are dumb as a box of rocks. They work against their own stated goals without know it thus ensuring perpetual failure.