NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
This is not about diet but limiting how the taxpayer is fleeced .
How will the taxpayer save money if we make food stamp recipients buy more brussels sprouts?
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This is not about diet but limiting how the taxpayer is fleeced .
Several states have tried to exclude or implement spending limits on junk food, but the federal government has never granted the waiver because of the cost to create a system that can weed out junk food.How to enforce it if the store doesn't take the initiative?
How to determine exactly what qualifies?
Doungnuts cake chips gum candy soda ?
Should these "entitlements be limited to nutritional food to stretch the tax payers investment?
Several states have tried to exclude or implement spending limits on junk food, but the federal government has never granted the waiver because of the cost to create a system that can weed out junk food.How to enforce it if the store doesn't take the initiative?
How to determine exactly what qualifies?
Taxing the people to death is a form of fascism already.We go down a slippery slope of health facism when we let the goverment decide which foods are nuitritious enough, don't you think?
Okay here's your foodstamps...you can now only buy TOFU and sprrouts with it because we're decided those are the only foods that are good enough for you.
I fully appreciate the frustration some of you feel about how food suppliment money is being spent.
But the solution some of you propose could easily become worse than the disease you are seeking to remedy.
Taxing the people to death is a form of fascism already.We go down a slippery slope of health facism when we let the goverment decide which foods are nuitritious enough, don't you think?
Okay here's your foodstamps...you can now only buy TOFU and sprrouts with it because we're decided those are the only foods that are good enough for you.
I fully appreciate the frustration some of you feel about how food suppliment money is being spent.
But the solution some of you propose could easily become worse than the disease you are seeking to remedy.
Having food stamp only stores will reduce the usage. Even with EBT cards, there is stigma associated with food stamps.How about grocery stores for Welfare Recipients only? Nothing stocked in them except what can be purchased via foodstamps.
Doungnuts cake chips gum candy soda ?
Should these "entitlements be limited to nutritional food to stretch the tax payers investment?
Having food stamp only stores will reduce the usage. Even with EBT cards, there is stigma associated with food stamps.How about grocery stores for Welfare Recipients only? Nothing stocked in them except what can be purchased via foodstamps.
Several times various groups as well as a couple of states have discussed this with the food stamp people. The problem lies in defining junk food. Do you exclude by content, salt, fat, sugar, too much carbohydrates, too little protein, or do you exclude by brand name. If you exclude by food content, you will exclude good foods. If you exclude by brand, then you're fighting ever food processor in the country which of course would have big politically overtones.Doungnuts cake chips gum candy soda ?
Should these "entitlements be limited to nutritional food to stretch the tax payers investment?
Ohh I agree, foodstamps sould not be used for sodas, candy, prepared pastries (like honeybuns, etc).
They used to be that way till the grocers and snack food industires lobbies changed things.
Doungnuts cake chips gum candy soda ?
Should these "entitlements be limited to nutritional food to stretch the tax payers investment?
Several times various groups as well as a couple of states have discussed this with the food stamp people. The problem lies in defining junk food. Do you exclude by content, salt, fat, sugar, too much carbohydrates, too little protein, or do you exclude by brand name. If you exclude by food content, you will exclude good foods. If you exclude by brand, then you're fighting ever food processor in the country which of course would have big politically overtones.Doungnuts cake chips gum candy soda ?
Should these "entitlements be limited to nutritional food to stretch the tax payers investment?
Ohh I agree, foodstamps sould not be used for sodas, candy, prepared pastries (like honeybuns, etc).
They used to be that way till the grocers and snack food industires lobbies changed things.
Several times various groups as well as a couple of states have discussed this with the food stamp people. The problem lies in defining junk food. Do you exclude by content, salt, fat, sugar, too much carbohydrates, too little protein, or do you exclude by brand name. If you exclude by food content, you will exclude good foods. If you exclude by brand, then you're fighting ever food processor in the country which of course would have big politically overtones.Ohh I agree, foodstamps sould not be used for sodas, candy, prepared pastries (like honeybuns, etc).
They used to be that way till the grocers and snack food industires lobbies changed things.
It would be easier to tell them what they CAN get, not what they cant.