Seattle Times: Did voters favor 'cheap soda' over health care for poor?
Washington voters in November rejected new taxes, including one on candy and carbonated beverages.
The title of this article asks an acutely moral question with implications across the greater societal spectrum in America where civic sounding fluff against taxes comes hard against society's ability to care for it's most vulnerable members.
In the Darwinian Survival-of-the-Capitalistic-Fittest cartoon world beloved of those who profess that shallowest sort of conservative thoughts a gigantic moral question arises.
Does free market priority (of which there is nothing sacred, holy or indisputably the best economic form) supersede the priority of the highest good of all concerned?
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