We could let in real sugar instead of stopping it at the borders, and putting in corn syrup in its place. As there are very serious questions about what corn syrup does to our bodies hormone wise.
But then a couple very rich families benefiting from that wouldn’t make quite as much money next year.
It is true that govt policies have led to the replacement of sugar with corn syrup. If corn syrup was the cause of all our problems then the libertarian has an easy answer. End the corn syrup bias (subsidies and foreign sugar tariffs) and we’ll go back to more sugar.
However, I really doubt sugar is that much better than corn syrup. In the end, a calorie is a calorie and you’ll still gain weight with sugar.
My policy idea is better because it doesn’t ignore the problem but it also doesn’t punish people who choose high calorie food. It rewards people for real results. Health care costs will go down and we won’t have all these calls for govt health care.