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In the short run, we could even use some of the taxes to compensate producers and induce them to switch to producing healthy food. That should help take some ob
by nopinsight 9y ago
In the short run, we could even use some of the taxes to compensate producers and induce them to switch to producing healthy food. That should help take some objection away from agribusiness.
For consumers, the taxes should be earmarked to subsidize healthy food and thus increase demand for it. Therefore, consumers do not pay more taxes in aggregate and that should reduce objection from fiscal conservatives.
- fludlight 9y agoThe problem is that some climates are massively more efficient at producing one crop over another. Switching corn subsidies to vegetable subsidies would reduce the value of farms in Iowa and increase the value of farms in California. Explicitly regional subsidies might work (CA farmers get $0.01 per carrot while IA gets $0.05). Some people will decry this as another market distortion, but that's the point.