Ezra Klein and his blog have gone away, gone away, from The American Prospect site. Alas.
However, he has landed at the Washington Post, which is apparently betting that the Net will live on and make profits when print is dead. To make the site attractive, the WP is willing to have Ezra’s solidly progressive, and very smart, blog on domestic affairs. So you can read George Will deny global warming (next up for denial: evolution, or perhaps the role of the HIV virus in AIDS). Or you can read Ezra. Read Ezra!
I particularly like this item, on why junk food whipped up in factories costs more than healthy vegetables grown on farms. Ezra suggests that taxing soda and ending subsidies to grow corn for corn syrup isn’t enough; the government should subsidize fresh vegetables. Cheaper vegetables equal healthier people, which also mean lower health costs, saving the government money.
The Netanyahu government, as Haim has noted, wants to eliminate an indirect subsidy on fruits and vegetables – the exemption from charging value-added tax on those foods. He also wants to continue cutting income tax, a cut that benefits the wealthy.
T-Shirt design contest – create the graphics for this slogan: Bibi Is Bad for Your Health.
This is nuts. Why not a VAT on sodas, chocolate bars and bamba instead of on fruits and vegetables? Not only is that better for our collective health, but judging from the number of children chugging sodas, and eating bamba and chocolate, I’m sure the government would make more money on those items anyway.