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At a minimum, make it more costly to eat unhealthy foods by taxing added sugar and subsidizing healthy foods.
by CabSauce 5y ago
At a minimum, make it more costly to eat unhealthy foods by taxing added sugar and subsidizing healthy foods.
- maerF0x0 5y agoIMO we dont need more late (consumer) applied taxes, first we need to remove the negative taxes (subsidies) from the input.
- CabSauce 5y agoThat's a great start. However, any tax/subsidy filters down to the consumer in a roughly efficient market.
- maerF0x0 5y agoSure, but a subsidy + tax in the chain is itself inefficient way to structure a market (ie takes a lot of software and accountants) . Better to just not do it at all.
- epi789 5y agoTaxes won’t work. People want autonomy. If you provide healthy meats and unprocessed foods, people will choose it. It’s a problem of access and convenience not necessarily choice.
- CabSauce 5y agoThat's just clearly not true with current incentives. Healthy options are more available now than any time in the past.