What do you think about food subsidies? Do they make us fat or rather incentivize us to make poor choices in what we eat?
Typically food subsidies pay farmers not to produce food, so I'd say they encourage starvation.
Food subsidies subsidize empty calories (corn - and all of its derivatives, fructose specifically) the government encourages us through economic incentives to buy food that makes us FAT and gives us DIABETES. Then they try and tax people to curb that very behavior that they encourage.
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Food subsidies along with subsidies for providing other essential consumer goods like health care services are evil. These subsidies destroy the pricing system and therefore destroy the ability of entrepreneurs to perform economic calculations which eventually leads to less production and impoverishment.
But with food subsidies these ends are not evil enough, government subsidizes only 10 products leaving all others to fend for themselves. Of course businesses take subsidies in one product and use that stolen wealth as capital to allow them to enter other markets and out compete those without the subsidies. But even this is not bad enough. This means that there is plent of subsidized stuff like corn for ethanol and less of the unsubsidized stuff like fresh vegetables.
So yes subsidies make people fatter than they would be otherwise.
I used to be a cashier at Kmart. It was pretty common for people to buy soda, candy, potato chips and other junk food (Kmart doesn't sell healthy food) with their EBT.
It's not just that, but that by setting up a price ceiling they encourage overproduction. This is what provides incentive for people to feed cattle (unnaturally) grains rather than grass, they get sick, we get sick, blah blah blah...This is what provides the incentive for them to make all of the derivatives in the first place (fructose) and put it in everything from bread, cool whip, to cookies, and beverages of all kinds.
and corn is a vegetable. Ethanol (Pure grain alcohol) can be made with anything with sugar. Internal combustion engies were created by burning alcohol...predating oil and gasoline