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Another Approach...
Why don't they start from the other end and eliminate farm subsidies for commodity corn that make soda and fast foods so affordable in the first place? By ending the government intervention artificially deflating these prices, we might not need government to artificially inflate them. The effects on public health and on federal coffers would ...
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Human Nature
by
jerpeck
on
April 10, 2009