How comes the taxpayer gets short-circuited by the ones which pocket our taxes as subsidies? Because industry takes some of those subsidies and pays the politicians directly rather than through an inflated paycheck (minus social security) and an outstanding health plan... we pay the elected twice!

I want my tax-dollars to support healthy foods so they will be easier for me to access so I can stay healthier since health care to counter the affects of bad “food” is so out of reach these days.

Instead, I not only have to pay more (not a premium, but true unassisted price; albeit still artificially low thanks to an exploited labor force) -- and also spend much more time to educate myself over and above the knowledge obstacle course put up by their marketing teams on Madison Avenue -- and out of sense of gratitude send extra $$ to these groups that operate outside of the mandatory government which actually do protect me and look out for my interests by exposing these abuses while giving me truth.

The current law is I have to pay to be deceived... not what the Founders were after.