The food pyramids

This chart, put together by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, shows that the government subsidizes mostly those foods that we're supposed to eat less of.

So let me get this straight. The government has been consistently subsidizing unhealthy foods so much that they've become very cheap and people have been eating way too much of them. To remedy that, the government is now considering taxing those unhealthy foods in order that they wouldn't be so cheap anymore.

How's that for efficiency?

(HT: Catherine Rampell.)