Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Non sequitur of the Day...

...or, This would make a great ScrappleFace bit.

As far as I can tell, this is NOT satire concocted by ConsumerFreedom.com:

Adding to the chorus of professors trying to argue away personal responsibility, the University of California Davis' J. Paul Leigh wrote in Sunday's Sacramento Bee that fast food is just too darn convenient and inexpensive. "The inflation-adjusted price of fast-food meals has decreased by more than half," he complained. Which brings him to what could possibly be the silliest notion ever devised to trim a dress size:

The solution for the obesity epidemic is to double the minimum wage, which would result in an 80 percent increase in fast-food prices. A large increase in prices would reduce fast-food consumption just like the increase in cigarette taxes reduced cigarette consumption.

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