The reason they started to use HFCS in the first place is because of.... a tariff.

That's probably still a net win for the health of the US population though, right?

Completely on accident, he might actually improve the lives of average people if soda becomes cost-prohibitive.

he'll slap a huge tariff on sugar

He might also only say he will until the stock price is low enough to buy in, and then say he'll exclude it from tarrifs.

Honestly a gigantic tax on added sugars in our food stuff would be great. I want that shit taxed every time the commodity changes hands - from the moment it's a corn stalk or a sugar cane stalk or beets in the ground all the way through to when you are drinking your preferred variety of sugary drink.

Our food system is so broken and the financial incentives, and time saving ones, are perverse and pervasive.

I don't want to kill fast food but I do want it to go back to reasonable portion sizes and it should be cheaper to buy a salad than a burger. That's how our food subsidies need to be structured, not shoveling money into the meat and sugar/corn industry so the worst food can be the cheapest.

The US is actually one of the worlds top producers of sugar. We make about 65,000,000 pounds of sugarcane a year, plus all the sugar beets we grow. Also, the largest sugar refinery in North America is in Louisiana.

Now the goofball thing is that while it still isn't enough for all the United States, we export thousands of tons. Mostly to Mexico, but also like Canada and Japan, while at the same time we import way more from places like Brazil.

might just be the only good thing he does, and it still wouldn’t be on purpose.

He destroyed the bullshit TPP that was about to fuck over digital ownership with DRM , and that was by accident too,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Intellectual_property

We grow sugar in Florida. Not sure how much though. Probably not enough to supply Coca Cola.