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-- I live a comfortable life and would love to see people eat healthily. Would you live a slightly less comfortable life to see other people eat healthy? Food

-- I live a comfortable life and would love to see people eat healthily. Would you live a slightly less comfortable life to see other people eat healthy? Food is expensive, but I'm sure there's fat in your budget. I agree banning dollar food stores is elitist, but it's also incredibly myopic by those in power to not also address the root cause which is you have a segment of the population that can't afford good food and has to consume food that exposes them to a greater set of negative health consequences. Raising minimum wages, and progressive taxation would go along way to fix a lot of this. \_(:|)_/

busymom0 7y ago
Raising minimum wage does the exact opposite. There’s a reason why Amazon and Walmart wants higher minimum wage because they can afford it but the small businesses can’t. Also raising the minimum wage does nothing but make the person who was already making slightly above the minimum wage now get paid less because everybody isn’t going to get a wage raise (and if they did then we are back to square one). AOC’s previous employer The Coffee Shop which was a major diner in NYC had to shut down last year because they couldn’t afford a $2 raise in the minimum wage.
barry-cotter 7y ago
> the root cause which is you have a segment of the population that can't afford good food These people don’t exist. Nutritionally complete diets that are very cheap include parties and milk, beans and rice, peanut butter and bread. If you add vitamin supplements or practically any meat that isn’t totally lean or any fruits or vegetables you will be perfectly healthy. Food is cheap enough that in Mexico the problem is obesity, not malnutrition. The US is a lot richer than Mexico.