Ezra Klein: How Subsidies Change Your World
Ezra demonstrates why a double cheeseburger is $.99 and more expensive than a salad. It’s the warping affect of billions in farm subsides. Some of the best action is in the comments:
If you manage the mortality-and-morbidity right, then Social Security won’t need its cap lifted, but Medicare, like a sinkhole, will slowly disappear the rest of the Federal budget.
That 99 cent double cheeseburger isn’t a sandwich, it’s a policy initiative.
It might make us fat and unhealthy, but it might thin the herd and help with Social Security costs.
