This is actually a follow up to the next paragraph in that it doesn't address your specific point but it's also sort of more important: "poor people" go to BK a

This is actually a follow up to the next paragraph in that it doesn't address your specific point but it's also sort of more important: "poor people" go to BK and MD, and we can't be having with the idea that poor people are equally rational but existing in a world of different circumstances/choices. Nope, they need to be told whats best for them. On the left we tax junk food, on the right they demand SNAP/TANF/WIC only cover a very specific subset of food. None of the soda taxes are particularly well thought out BUT Starbucks does not offer a 64oz anything unlike 7-11, so it's less obvious.