According to legend, Marie Antoinette, queen of France, when told that her subjects were going hungry for want of bread, responded blithely, “Let them eat cake.” Now, politicians and middle-class activists seek to ban sources of $1 bread with an unspoken, “Let them eat Whole Foods.”
It seems that government in any form is always sinking to new lows. What is the point of this? The only thing it can possibly accomplish is to make the lives of those with lower incomes worse. Why don't we just let supply and demand determine what stores open and close?