Health Care, Housing, & Food

If health care is a constitutional right, then so is housing and food. All three are fundamental needs every person has (arguably housing and food more so), all are substantial pieces of our nation's GDP, all can be expensive for individual consumers. In that light, why shouldn't government be involved in fundamentally changing and reforming how we eat and where we sleep? Here is my modest proposal:

Let's start with food. There is no need for anyone to consume more than 2000 calories each day, and yet some people are wastefully doing that in one meal. Consider the amount of money saved if every person was limited to a daily diet of 2000 calories. Also consider how this program will turn fat and unhealthy people into thin and healthy people. A huge windfall for our health care system. I am proposing a Food Czar who will take care of administering this program. Anyone caught consuming more than their alloted 2000 calories will incur a 2.5% tax. The government will distribute coupons (to be known as Food Stamps) which will be the only accepted form of payment in purchasing food. Grocery stores found to not comply by also accepting dollar bills will incur a 7.5% tax.

Now to housing. It is fundamentally unfair that 50% of the people in the United States do not own their home. To rectify this, the federal government will buy all housing. People who currently do not own their home will have to rent from one of the government approved (owned) rental properties. People who currently own their home can keep it, for now. If they should move, they will have to turn their current home over to the government and rent from one of the government approved (owned) rental properties. If they still live in their home 5 years after this bill is passed, they will at that point have to turn their home over to the government and rent from one of the government approved (owned) rental properties. It should be noted here that the government really does not want to be in the housing business, and anyone who says otherwise is misled, lying, and un-American.