Not even tuna fish is a single ingredient food. If you do this, however, the price of meat and fruit will go through the roof, as will bags of sugar and flour. Then you will complain during the holidays at how expensive it is for you to make pumpkin pie, cook a turkey, buy steak, or whatever.

I heard a former congessman that was on SNAP early in life talk about things he learned while in Congress. There are things like food trucks that are essentially unregulated. They ring you up for fish or meat, but hand you whatever you actually want. SNAP fraud is like medicare fraud - you will never eliminate it with systematic approaches. You have to investigate it and prosecute it when you find it, case by case.

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You will incentivize healthy farming methods. I would much rather have the government buying food grown regeneratively and with health as a top priority- than subsidizing Little Debbie to make more food chemistry experiments.

This is a pipe dream. You say single ingredient foods, so green beans are going up in price because people will be forced to buy those instead of Doritos, and they are not going to healthy farming methods, because that makes it even more expensive. SNAP is only 11% of the population. The rest of the country will now get more expensive green beans, and to convince them to buy those more expensive green beans, they have to find ways to keep the price as low as possible. That will not lead to healthy farming methods. It will go in the opposite direction.
What you will see is Doritos and sodas go down in price, then all the non-SNAP people will consume more of them as a result. Where does that take us in terms of health?

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You want bread and cookies- fricking bake them.

You just want to punish people for being on SNAP. How does that typically turn out?

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No beverages - except milk and bottled water.

How much more expensive will milk get? That should be great for moms everywhere, getting milk and cereal for their kids. They're going to love your idea.

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There is no reason you should be able to obtain Doritos using government money.

Why not? If your argument is based on public good and the use of tax dollars, looking at the internet I see:
There are over 40 million people with student loans.
Over 11 million SBA loans
1/3 of the population on Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security
According to Forbes, over 90% of of healthcare comes about due to some sort of govt subsidy.
Are you going to apply your logic to over 100 million people or are you just angry at these morons flaunting their EBT card purchases?

These cretins with their tiktok videos have pissed off the entire nation, but the arguments that have followed, stating you can't vote if you get SNAP, or can't buy this or that, are slippery slopes. RFK Jr said he would gladly sign an assault weapons ban if he was president, now he wants to tell you what you can buy if you're on SNAP, all in the name of public health and 'for your own good'. The urge to control your life by those in power will never end, and with so much of the nation getting some type of govt assistance, this is a very dangerous road to go down. If you can't vote while on SNAP, why should you vote while on an SBA loan, or student loan, or a farm loan, or Social Security, housing voucher and so on? They are all forms of dependence and subsidy via tax dollars.

Be careful what you wish for.