Originally Posted By: Derid

You havent addressed the question or how you would accomplish your goals.


My answer have not satisfied you before, and set you off on a ideological grandstanding ...

Empirically.

Is X produces greater good? If I can reasonably measure, add up all costs then it should be possible to determine if it should be encouraged or discouraged.

This isn't a novel concept - we have plenty of sin taxes already. Only they are often misapplied on ideological or religious grounds.

Think of liberalism, throw away all dogma and "shoulds" and replace it with "Does it really work" and you can see where I am coming from.

What are effects and costs of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup? Should we end this subsidy and even add tax after balancing the book on it?

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