Item #2: Inefficient Healthcare Spending

The United States government subsidizes the raw ingredients that go into inexpensive carbohydrate-based ultra-processed foods. For example, the high-fructose corn syrup industry gets more federal funds (via subsidies for types of corn that are bred for that purpose and inedible for corn-on-the-cob

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In a figurative sense, the American economy has enjoyed lots of low-hanging fruit since at least the seventeenth century, whether it be free land, lots of immigrant labor, or powerful new technologies. Yet during the last forty years, that low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to

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