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re: SNAP: $15B spent on junk food
Posted on 7/9/17 at 1:04 pm to NoSaint
Posted on 7/9/17 at 1:04 pm to NoSaint
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So if you file for any welfare, unemployment, food stamps, any housing or healthcare subsidies you are banned from anything with sugar, or entertainment spending?
I'm curious to hash out who should be allowed to purchase a soda by your standards
Do you not see the difference between buying a coke with food stamps and buying a coke with your own money?
Simply don't allow soda purchases with food stamps. If they want a coke they can buy it with their own money.
It's not that difficult to understand.
Eta: food stamps were created to keep people from going hungry, Not to allow them to indulge.
This post was edited on 7/9/17 at 1:08 pm
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Posted on 7/9/17 at 1:09 pm to rintintin
quote:they will just sell the commodities for cash then use the cash to buy Swisher Sweets
Simply don't allow soda purchases with food stamps. If they want a coke they can buy it with their own money.
It's not that difficult to understand.
Eta: food stamps were created to keep people from going hungry, Not to allow them to indulge.
Posted on 7/9/17 at 1:50 pm to rintintin
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Do you not see the difference between buying a coke with food stamps and buying a coke with your own money?
When we are talking about a system where people are seeing money for all kinds of purposes, there's certainly a part of me that isn't losing sleep over how we trace the source of that particular dollar, if we have the appropriate levels of financing going into the persons package.
If they get 100 for food, 100 for housing and earn 200 (just random round numbers) and they have to feed and house themselves and plan to include a coke in their budget, so frickin be it and I don't really care which spot they want to shortchange themselves
Set the benefit level right and set the qualifications right, and a proper expiration and beyond that, have at it dude. Get a coke. I don't need to shame or embarrass anyone extra or force them to live by my standards. I also think allowing an occasional "above the absolute bare minimum to survive" purchase goes a long way to good people getting benefits still feeling human which isn't the worst in trying to get back on your feet.
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