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kleinbl00  ·  1968 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fucking businesses fucking up the fucking democratic process.

The problem is that corn syrup is subsidized by the agricultural system in the United States. Vegetables are not. This is effectively the same as disincentivizing healthy food because if you can sell corn for less than it costs to grow and still turn a profit you're not going to switch to broccoli unless it makes you money. And broccoli you're competing against large agribusinesses in Mexico and South America and besides, 95% of the farms in the US are owned by conglomerates anyway.

A sugar tax is effectively a local solution for a national problem and when the national industries can take on the local municipalities, they lose. That's pretty much the beef here.