Comment by conductr

It’s similar to oil. Our people are very price sensitive to food and gas. It’s required in America at all economic classes fairly heavily in our society. So, politicians have decided to try to force prices low and keep hidden costs at the federal level. It allows for reallocation of wealth (a richer person’s taxes helps pay for a poorer person’s lunch and gas to the grocery store). Also, if taxes aren’t enough to cover it well we run our country at a huge deficit so it’s all a big illusion of sustainability that pretty much is destined to fail eventually anyway. I don’t think people or politicians really care about the future or what world their children will inherit as much as they act like they do here; or I’ve not been witness to that thought process in most of our systems.