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Why doesn't the government try to solve calorie inequality the same way they try to solve income inequality?

Asked by josie (30934points) May 28th, 2015

Depending on the source, around 1 in 6 Americans “go to bed hungry” or are food insecure or however you want to describe the fact that some people can’t buy enough food.
On the other hand, at least 1 in 4 Americans are obese, and a whole lot more are “overweight”
Seems to me, the government could figure out a way to force the obese people to “go to bed hungry” and give the calories to the ones that currently “go to bed hungry”. It might solve two problems at once.
And it is not without precedent. The government already has policies that force people who make good money to give it to people who don’t make much. The so called redistribution of wealth. So nothing new here.

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