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"  As President Obama can attest, government spending cuts are a notoriously contentious affair. But here&amp;#039;s one that seems like kind of a gimme: According to a new report, $16.9 billion went into subsidizing high-fructose corn syrup and three other common junk-food additives during the period between 1995 and 2010. To put that number in perspective, the only federal subsidy for fresh fruits and vegetables that&amp;#039;s even financially significant is the one for apples, and that totaled $262 million over the same period. Which is ... much less. The subsidies are enough to cover 19 Twinkies per taxpayer per year, versus a few bites out of a single apple. What with the nation&amp;#039;s obesity rates and all, it seems like everyone except the corn growers can get behind eliminating this one. [via Los Angeles Times] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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