I argue against the common belief that the problem of expensive tastes constitutes a special problem for welfare egalitarianism. I construct cases that show that the problem, in fact, arises for a large range of theories of distributive justice, including those that deal in resources, capabilities an opportunity for welfare. To the extent that authors like Rawls, Dworkin, Sen and Arneson avoid the expensive tastes objection, I argue, their anti-welfarism is not responsible–and their solutions, if successful, are equally available to the welfarist. If any broadly egalitarian theorist can avoid the expensive tastes objection, then the welfarist can too.
