First SNAP Ban on Candy and Soda Set To Become Law

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

So if you are in a car accident and receive an award in compensation, it should come with the stipulation that the money can only be spent on essentials of life?

How about no vacations, no movies, no children, and no TV too?

When do we start sterilizing the poor?

I see you dedicated the day to channeling your closeted liberal side.

 

[Lisa558]

I see you dedicated the day to channeling your closeted liberal side.

I’ve said a few times now that I think someone hacked his account. He was intelligent up until now.

 

[toobfreak]

I think children should be removed from drug or alcohol addicted parents. We should bring back orphanages. They’d be better off.

Do not forget the Jews. No doubt it is their fault all of the Middle East is on their asses. They just made bad decisions. We should take land away from them and withhold certain weapons from them for having so many enemies! If they want those weapons, they can just make and pay for them themselves!

Whoops! I just applied the same logic used against needy welfare recipients to the Jewish people! Funny how the flaws in one's logic become all the more apparent when transferred from an unpopular group everyone is willing to hate to one which really matters to us!

 

[Lisa558]

Do not forget the Jews. No doubt it is their fault all of the Middle East is on their asses. They just made bad decisions. We should take land away from them and withhold certain weapons from them for having so many enemies! If they want those weapons, they can just make and pay for them themselves!

Whoops! I just applied the same logic used against needy welfare recipients to the Jewish people! Funny how the flaws in one's logic become all the more apparent when transferred from an unpopular group everyone is willing to hate to one which really matters to us!

Huh?! You’re drawing a parallel between self-supporting Jews and irresponsible welfare recipients?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

the world doesnt revolve around you or your opinion,,

you dont like the cars WE DRIVE AND PAID for you can fuck off,,

I think Toober is playing an extended April Fool's joke on us. He's stupid, but not THAT stupid.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Is it really up to the taxpayer to feed La Quisha fattening junk food and drink so she can sport a sizeable ass, get diabetes and die after she's spawned seven kids from seven different baby daddies while still in her 30s?

Try 20s.

 

[tahuyaman]

Once again, Idaho leads the nation!
Well..in stigmatizing the poor, anyway~

Gov. Little is sure to sign this.

First SNAP ban on candy and soda set to become law

The bill now heads to Idaho Governor Brad Little's desk to be signed.

www.newsweek.com

SNAP benefits—also known as "food stamps"—are administered nationwide to low- and no-income households that would otherwise struggle to purchase groceries. In the 2024 fiscal year, the program served 130,900 Idaho residents, or 7 percent of the state population. But numerous states are considering banning certain purchases from being made using the anti-poverty benefit, Idaho being the first to pass a bill in both chambers.
The passage and potential signing of the bill does not necessarily mean Idaho's SNAP recipients in Idaho will be immediately impacted, as the ban will be subject to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approval.

No waivers are currently in place in any state that bar SNAP recipients from buying foods based on their nutritional value. However, this could be subject to change under the current Trump administration. Newsweek has contacted the USDA for comment via email.

There is also a push at the federal level to see junk food purchases banned. In January, U.S. Representative Josh Brecheen, a Republican from Oklahoma, introduced the Healthy SNAP Act, which would make soft drinks, candy, ice cream and prepared desserts ineligible from being purchased using SNAP benefits.

How is this stigmatizing the poor?

 

[toobfreak]

If I PM you my PayPal will you send me fifty bucks for a movie and concessions for this weekend for me and Mrs. Flops?

Sorry, but I can only see fit to send you $2.50, it will have to be a training film on diversity and equity, and you are only allowed to eat warm celery.

If you want to see a better movie or eat better food, you'll just have to find a job to pay for it yourself.

 

[Delldude]

For those that are disabled & kids in a bad spot in life, this is a pretty offensive and ignorant thing to write.


. . . if you could have everything taken care of by the government, but you have to be blind or crippled, or be raised by drug and alcohol addicted parents. . . . . which, "deal," would you choose?

Why did you pop the laughing emoji on the original post then?

 

[Polishprince]

George Burns smoked cigars--- chain smoked them. He lived to be 100.

Dean Martin drank like a fish. He still lived to be 78.

If cigarettes and booze are unhealthy for welfare recipients, they must be unhealthy for everyone. Maybe the government should go back on prohibition and take everything bad for us off the market?

I still am missing the constitutionality of how in a free country based on self-determination, we are somehow voting for the government telling people how they should eat? More then telling them, trying to use the force of law to MAKE them eat a certain way, with no clear benefit in doing so.

Where does it stop? First one group, then another. First it is just candy and pop, then it becomes a ban on violent TV shows, wrong thinking and fast driving.

I'm just amazed at how the same people who would revile the government arresting people for "misgendering" another with the "improper pronouns" can sit here willing to let the same government oppress others simply because they had the misfortune of needing the government's help.

Maybe we WILL end up some day where our government treats us all like little children and doesn't let us smoke, drink, have unprotected sex, more children than two, or eat or drink anything sugary, fattening or sweet, own a fast car, or live in our own choice of home, job, career or pick our own spouse.

We are already taking steps in that direction with banned words, unable to offend certain groups while others are protected.

The question isn't whether anyone should be allowed to smoke or drink, but what the taxpayers should be paying for.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

SNAP is welfare

No, it is not. TANF is welfare. Have a nice day!

 

[tahuyaman]

If your subsistence is being paid for by the taxpayers there’s nothing wrong with talking steps to ensure that one can’t purchase unhealthy products.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Sorry, but I can only see fit to send you $2.50, it will have to be a training film on diversity and equity, and you are only allowed to eat warm celery.

If you want to see a better movie or eat better food, you'll just have to find a job to pay for it yourself.

Say the same to a welfare recipient who wants snacks and movies and cell phones for all the kids.

 

[MisterBeale]

Why did you pop the laughing emoji on the original post then?

Because when folks are either ignorant of how the world works, or just patently illogical?

. . . I find it entertaining TBH.

 

[toobfreak]

Huh?! You’re drawing a parallel between self-supporting Jews and irresponsible welfare recipients?

No YOU did. I only applied your own line of reasoning you used for one group you DON'T care about and applied it to another group you DO care about to show you the flaws in the thinking.

Notice that everyone here attacking welfare recipients probably are NOT on welfare, never WERE on welfare, nor never knew anyone close to them that was forced to go onto it!

It is much like giving up something you don't value. Telling someone they must give up driving might mean nothing to someone who doesn't own nor drive, but might mean EVERYTHING to a professional NASCAR driver! Funny how the same issue looks different to different people simply from the differences in the POV from which they examine an issue.

That means that nothing in life is truly black and white, it is all relative to how you want to look at it, even if a lot of people WANT it to appear black and white.

 

[struth]

No, it is not. TANF is welfare. Have a nice day!

They both are. Both give things of value to poor families

 

[Anathema]

Choice is freedom...and it is not up to the Govt. to police people's food purchases.

The Freedom to Choose INCORRECTLY is one of the major reasons I don’t believe in Drmocracy or Freedom.

 

[MisterBeale]

You’re drawing a parallel between self-supporting Jews

Seems like a legitimate comparison to free loading Israel to me. . . .

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/countries-that-receive-the-most-foreign-aid-from-the-u-s

 

[MisterBeale]

No, it is not. TANF is welfare. Have a nice day!

They are both social welfare programs.

 

[struth]

Seems like a legitimate comparison to free loading Israel to me. . . .

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https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/countries-that-receive-the-most-foreign-aid-from-the-u-s

Jesus! Look how much more we give Ukraine than anyone else!