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minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·10 hours agoIf the concern was really about health, they’d be regulating maximum sugar % in all sodas and candies, not banning them to the poor.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 hours agoAnd if the concern was about people’s health, Trump wouldn’t have put RFK Jr into that job.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down7·8 hours agoIf you want to buy sugar on your own dime, you can hurt your own health. But why should the government pay for it?
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·8 hours agoIt is their own dime. The government is everybody, and it’s here to serve. Somehow they got in your had that they aren’t entitled to that, but they are.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 hours agoWhy should the government regulate how people eat based on their income?
If the concern was really about health, they’d be regulating maximum sugar % in all sodas and candies, not banning them to the poor.
And if the concern was about people’s health, Trump wouldn’t have put RFK Jr into that job.
If you want to buy sugar on your own dime, you can hurt your own health. But why should the government pay for it?
It is their own dime. The government is everybody, and it’s here to serve. Somehow they got in your had that they aren’t entitled to that, but they are.
Why should the government regulate how people eat based on their income?