First SNAP Ban on Candy and Soda Set To Become Law

[Rawley]

Ahh.. so if you get free shit from the government, they own your ass, eh?

Nope. But if they are paying the bill, they get to decide what you can buy. DO you advocate they can buy cigarettes and booze with SNAP?

 

[multivita-man]

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.

Maybe this isn't a bad thing? (Though I admit I haven't read the fine print). They presumably have non-SNAP funds to buy that if they so desire, right?

Poverty and obesity go hand in hand. I don't think it's terrible that they're making junk food less accessible, though I guess it depends on how "junk" is defined. If they start banning microwavable meals, that's obviously problematic as low-wage earners are often short on time and often live in food deserts.

 

[Lisa558]

Where's the fun in welfare if we can't lord it over the less fortunate?

Seeing that our money is spent responsibly is not “lording it over”. They can earn some money and then spend it however they want.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Ice cream?????? NO, not ice cream......we're all gonna DIE



But on a serious note.......there are other products that can't be bought with FS, such as some energy drinks and beverages (depends on ingredients), hot deli items, and others. Neither is tobacco or alcohol. So where's the complaint of those things limiting choices???????

 

[toobfreak]

SNAP benefits—also known as "food stamps"—are administered nationwide to low- and no-income households that would otherwise struggle to purchase groceries. There is also a push at the federal level to see junk food purchases banned.

And just the other day, someone here was daring me to show where the government ever tried to tell people what to eat! So now people on SNAP are forced to "live right" where no one else is! That is discriminatory. I bet this results in lawsuits.

I get it, poor people on SNAP should be grateful they get any food and help at all and should only be buying and eating only whole bread, celery, kelp, and turnips, they don't deserve any chocolate in their lives or anything sweet! But you go right on eating it. But what about people forced onto SNAP through no fault of their own, disabled people who cannot cook so live primarily on processed food, and cannot sleep due to pain and health problems and need that Coke or Pepsi to mix with a little whiskey at night to help kill the pain so they can sleep?

Worse, these banned foods might literally be the only pleasure left in these people's lives.

Once the government can tell people on SNAP what they should and shouldn't live on, it will only be one more step to banning these foods for everyone else. I wonder what your response will be when the state and Fed come to tell you that you can no longer have any cake, ice cream or anything with sugar in it? Eat the bugs.

Things always seem like a good idea when they don't involve affecting YOU.

 

[Rawley]

And just the other day, someone here was daring me to show where the government ever tried to tell people what to eat! So now people on SNAP are forced to "live right" where no one else is! That is discriminatory. I bet this results in lawsuits.

I get it, poor people on SNAP should be grateful they get any food and help at all and should only be buying and eating only whole bread, celery, kelp, and turnips, they don't deserve any chocolate in their lives or anything sweet! But you go right on eating it. But what about people forced onto SNAP through no fault of their own, disabled people who cannot cook so live primarily on processed food, and cannot sleep due to pain and health problems and need that Coke or Pepsi to mix with a little whiskey at night to help kill the pain so they can sleep?

Worse, these banned foods might literally be the only pleasure left in these people's lives.

Once the government can tell people on SNAP what they should and shouldn't live on, it will only be one more step to banning these foods for everyone else. I wonder what your response will be when the state and Fed come to tell you that you can no longer have any cake, ice cream or anything with sugar in it? Eat the bugs.

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Things always seem like a good idea when they don't involve affecting YOU.

If they afford whisky, they can afford a Pepsi.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And you guys want to sit here and talk about their choices, when they made their choice already. To be dependent on other people and the govt. Thats what happens when you depend on others.
Grow up.

Defund the RichKid Reich

Why are you letting Daddy-mooching HeirHeads off the hook of your resentment at those who steal our future? There's something strangely irrational in this one-sided pretense. What powerful clique crushed the manly attitude of "If we have to do it on our own, so must they!"

 

[Meathead]

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.

Seriously?! SNAP should be confined to nutritious staples. That's it.

 

[dblack]

Seriously?! SNAP should be confined to nutritious staples. That's it.

Rice and beans.

 

[dblack]

Seeing that our money is spent responsibly is not “lording it over”. They can earn some money and then spend it however they want.

Maybe we could assign each welfare recipient a Trumpster minder who could ensure they don't do anything "untoward".

 

[toobfreak]

If they afford whisky, they can afford a Pepsi.

That is not the point. And how do you know that? It may kill them to afford a bottle of whiskey (or whatever) and they need every penny left to buy cola. Bottom line is that you just do not know, it is blatant discrimination against people JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR for whatever reason, and amounts to basically cutting them off from their food benefits, and at a time when the government is actually saving hundreds of billions in former waste.

Why don't you eliminate all candy, sweets, junk food and cola in your diet for just one MONTH, then get back to us on the fairness to other people, not all of which are mere lazy sponges, some of which are on SNAP benefits because of disabilities for which they bear no fault, sometimes caused by the government themselves!

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Food stamps should only cover bread, milk and lunch meat. Nothing else, no exceptions.

 

[Rawley]

That is not the point.

That is the point. When someone else is footing the bill, they can make the rules.

And how do you know that? It may kill them to afford a bottle of whiskey (or whatever) and they need every penny left to buy cola.

So they can go for it. Nothing stopping them from buying booze and pepsi on their own.

Bottom line is that you just do not know, it is blatant discrimination against people JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR for whatever reason, and amounts to basically cutting them off from their food benefits, and at a time when the government is actually saving hundreds of billions in former waste.

Why don't you eliminate all candy, sweets, junk food and cola in your diet for just one MONTH, then get back to us on the fairness to other people, not all of which are mere lazy sponges, some of which are on SNAP benefits because of disabilities for which they bear no fault, sometimes caused by the government themselves!

I have for years. It's called living a healthy lifestyle. It's rather easy to do. You should try it.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

DO you advocate they can buy cigarettes and booze with SNAP?

Scammin' & Jammin'

These lazy crybabies already do that, trading what they get from SNAP for that and even for drugs.

That's why the Feralphiles forced Amos and Andy off the air. It was all about Kingfish coming up one get-rich-quick scheme after the other.

 

[Rawley]

Food stamps should only cover bread, milk and lunch meat. Nothing else, no exceptions.

Vegetables and fruit.

 

[Rawley]

Scammin' & Jammin'

These lazy crybabies already do that, trading what they get from SNAP for that and even for drugs.

That's why the Feralphiles forced Amos and Andy off the air. It was all about Kingfish coming up one get-rich-quick scheme after the other.

Could be, but not not what we are talking about. The point is that not everything you can scan at the grocery store can be bought with your EBT card.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Vegetables and fruit.

Want more? Get a job.

 

[toobfreak]

That is the point. When someone else is footing the bill, they can make the rules.

And there are laws against discrimination. But since the government foots the bill, some bill for ALL of us, I can't wait until they make a law on what you can and cannot eat! I mean so what if it means making poor sick, suffering people's lives hell, right? So what if it conflicts with their needs! Lessee: meat is expensive and bad for you, lobster is expensive and only taxpayers should have it, so let's ban them from having meat and lobster as well--- cheap lunch meat bologna is good enough for them!

So they can go for it. Nothing stopping them from buying booze and pepsi on their own.

Except a lack of mobility and money.

I have for years. It's called living a healthy lifestyle. It's rather easy to do. You should try it.

I already do. But rather hard to "live a healthy lifestyle" if you are disabled, very sick, in a wheelchair, or immobilized with chronic pain, isn't it? All the worse if your disability was caused by the very government who disabled you and forced you onto food stamps in the first place.

You are still skirting the real issue here--- this is pure discrimination. If such a law were applied to ANY OTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE, that they are barred from eating certain foods and can only buy food even if it is stuff they don't like or cannot prepare nor cook, this law would never be considered. If a person gets $200 a month to live on and they want to spend it all on candy peanuts and milk duds, that is their business not YOURS. It is still the same amount of money out of the state coffers.

Basically, your only real argument here is that you just resent paying into government programs helping the needy. Got it.

 

[Rawley]

Want more? Get a job.

LOL I might not be a toobfreak communist, but I'm not going to deny them some broccoli and some apples.

 

[1srelluc]

There's a reason we have the most obese "poor people" in the world.

How many meals you you think they missed?