Monday, April 12, 2010
News Fat Tax on Sugary Drinks to Deprive Poor of Right to Be Fat (Kool-Aid Man "Saddened")
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- "American Beauty," jpeg, 2009
"Advocates" for the poor (by which I mean politicians who want to get elected in poorer districts) like Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D-Bronx), had this to say to the NY Post:
People who are poor or working class tend to drink the powdered stuff because it goes a lot further than bottled or can drinks.
You know what, fuck that. Though true, the above statement begins from the deeply flawed notion that sugary drinks are some kind of right. Well, they're not: junk food is a vice, and it affects more than just the user. The idea that depriving the mythical "working class" of cheap access to useless calories is just more big, bad government intervention is horseshit. And you know what? This particular government intervention is just trying to correct for the massive government intervention of the last 40 years that has made high-fructose corn syrup the single largest refined food commodity in America—a commodity that has made us the fattest people in the known universe. (And by us, I mean you.)
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