First SNAP Ban on Candy and Soda Set To Become Law

[whitehall]

Can you really buy candy and junk with taxpayer funded food stamps? Good show Idaho. It shows what you can do when the federal government is taken out of the equation.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I see this as very good thing.

The grocery lobby sure won't be pleased.

Neither will dentists, doctors or Pharma

 

[Rawley]

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?

Dude, soda and highly processed food is precisely what is making them sick

Food Stamp Recipients More Likely To Be Obese, Study Finds

Food Stamp Recipients More Likely To Be Obese, Study Finds

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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!


Except a lack of mobility and money.


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?

Not at all hard to have someone bring you apples and carrots rather than soda and HoHos

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.

Nope. The soda and candy is killing them, and the gvt should not be supplying the poison. But you make it quite clear you don't care about their health.

I think we're done.

 

[Lisa558]

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

Stop being ridiculous. We don’t allow them to buy alcohol with it because that it is a waste of money and unhealthy. Same thing with soda and candy.

Soda is near the very top of food stamp purchases. Just think of how much more (of our) money they’ll have for real food.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

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

And then someone says they need steak and pork chops, then bacon and eggs, then we're back where we started.

Also, people who receive food stamps should be barred from purchasing alcohol and cigarettes.

 

[toobfreak]

Dude, soda and highly processed food is precisely what is making them sick

Bullshit. You don't know that. You are just rationalizing. I doubt that a can of soda or a candy bar or cookie put someone in a wheelchair and disabled them.

Not at all hard to have someone bring you apples and carrots rather than soda and HoHos

Really? Who is going to do that? Not at all hard? You are full of it. What if the person is old and has no family nor friends, and they cannot afford to pay for the food out of their own pocket. And we are not talking about Twinkies here. You are banning them from eating nothing but raw, uncooked fresh meat and vegetables, no desert, no beverages (most beverages contain sugar), no cookies, no snacks, nothing. If this were an al Quada detainee, he would have more rights.

Nope. The soda and candy is killing them, and the gvt should not be supplying the poison. But you make it quite clear you don't care about their health.

Like I said, they may depend on the cola for medical aid like making a drink before bed to help them sleep, and "candy" is a broad discrimination that can easily extend into all processed food. Bottom line is that you are defending the government taking away a person's right to choose what they eat. Just remember that when it extends to affecting you. Just wait till the government restricts your living "for your own good." Even if it has nothing to do with you, because you cannot make a just one size fits all law that is just to everyone in a state.

ITMT, $200 worth of candy costs just as much as $200 worth of kale, so it won't even save you a dime of taxpayer money.

 

[Rawley]

And then someone says they need steak and pork chops, then bacon and eggs, then we're back where we started.

At least those have nutritional value. Soda, candy and chips - none.

Also, people who receive food stamps should be barred from purchasing alcohol and cigarettes.

Well, they can't with their EBT cards.

 

[toobfreak]

Also, people who receive food stamps should be barred from purchasing alcohol and cigarettes.

Why stop there? The needy, sick and disabled should be barred from seeing movies, having desert, having children, or enjoying life at all. Just put them in a cell and feed them bread, lunch meat and water, right?

 

[Scoutster]

I don't mind feeding hungry kids but I don't also want to fund their treatment for Diabetes later on....

 

[Scoutster]

Why stop there? The needy, sick and disabled should be barred from seeing movies, having desert, having children, or enjoying life at all. Just put them in a cell and feed them bread, lunch meat and water, right?

 

[scruffy]

I haven't decided if I'm for this or against this.

Does Little Debbie and Moon Pies qualify as candy?

 

[Dante]

First SNAP Ban on Candy and Soda Set To Become Law​

MAGA Nanny State​

 

[toobfreak]

I haven't decided if I'm for this or against this.

Easy to decide, Scruff. Just ask yourself if you really want the government to now have the power to tell others and regulate what they can and cannot eat?

Just remember, every bad idea always starts with good intentions.

 

[Rawley]

Bullshit. You don't know that. You are just rationalizing. I doubt that a can of soda or a candy bar or cookie put someone in a wheelchair and disabled them.


Really? Who is going to do that? Not at all hard? You are full of it. What if the person is old and has no family nor friends, and they cannot afford to pay for the food out of their own pocket. And we are not talking about Twinkies here. You are banning them from eating nothing but raw, uncooked fresh meat and vegetables, no desert, no beverages (most beverages contain sugar), no cookies, no snacks, nothing. If this were an al Quada detainee, he would have more rights.


Like I said, they may depend on the cola for medical aid like making a drink before bed to help them sleep, and "candy" is a broad discrimination that can easily extend into all processed food. Bottom line is that you are defending the government taking away a person's right to choose what they eat. Just remember that when it extends to affecting you. Just wait till the government restricts your living "for your own good." Even if it has nothing to do with you, because you cannot make a just one size fits all law that is just to everyone in a state.

ITMT, $200 worth of candy costs just as much as $200 worth of kale, so it won't even save you a dime of taxpayer money.

Damn. You are just all over the place. It isn't about the money, it's about not supplying them with poison that is killing them.

We're done. Have a blessed day.

 

[Crepitus]

No more Super Big Gulps

Gonna have to spend their own money now.

Can't buy those with food stamps.

 

[Blackrook]

Poor people buy and eat too much junk food.

This is a good idea.

The only reasons Democrats are against this is because Trump is for it.

 

[toobfreak]

It isn't about the money, it's about not supplying them with poison that is killing them.

A sweetened beverage is killing them? A snack is killing them? What if they cannot cook normal meals due to disability and eat prepackaged food because it is all they can deal with?

And if it is just about FORCING THEM to eat better just because they are poor and sick, FOR THEIR OWN GOOD, why stop there? And why stop with just them?

• Speeding is bad for you so your car should be restricted from going over 50 mph.
• Much TV programming is bad for you so your TV channels ought to be restricted.
• Meat is bad for you so you should be barred from buying meat.
• Having children adds to global overpopulation so the government should castrate you.
• Staying up late makes you sleepy and waste time at work being unproductive so everyone should have a bell in their home telling them to go to bed at 10PM.
• Pizza, calzones and pasta are fattening, so no more of that for you. No hamburgers neither.

It all comes down to one simple question: should the government have the right to tell you how to live? How to eat? The fact that they are on a government program is just the EXCUSE for doing so. Whatever they buy for food, it will not save you one dime.

Once the government starts telling one group of people how to live, and can rationalize it as for their own good, you've opened the pandora's box to do more and more to everyone.

BOTTOM LINE: Restricting people from buying and eating the food they want and need to eat that ALL OTHERS ARE ALLOW TO HAVE is not only wholly discriminatory, but unamerican and unconstitutional. You should be ashamed of yourself.

If this law goes through and is not challenged, I cannot wait until in a few years, the government starts dreaming up all kinds of ways of telling YOU how you can live.

 

[toobfreak]

Poor people buy and eat too much junk food.

Show me the data.

This is a good idea.

Rawley says this is just for their own good. But poor and disabled people are a small subset of the population. If we do this, let's go ALL THE WAY and make it fair: NO UNHEALTHY FOOD FOR NO ONE.

I can't wait for the government to bar you from eating hamburgers, french fries, milk shakes, sweetened beverages, pizza, calzones, cake, ice cream, snacks, donuts, potato chips, chocolate, cookies, buffalo wings, fried food, hot dogs, pie, brownies, nachos, popcorn, and the like.

It is all bad for you and adds to your healthcare bills which the government foots. From now on, all you get are raw vegetables, raw fish, milk and water.

And you will sit there and take it. Uncle Sam, the same people just busted too stupid to stop sending SS benefits to a million 193 year old people, has determined how you live, with YOUR blessings.

 

[Rawley]

Can't buy those with food stamps.

Sure you can.

Does 7-Eleven Take EBT? What Can I Buy at 7-11 With SNAP? - California Food Stamps Help

We answer the question - Does 7-Eleven Take EBT? Can you use your EBT Card at 7-11 to buy pizza, soda, Slurpees, Slushies, and ice cream?

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[Rawley]

Poor people buy and eat too much junk food.

This is a good idea.

The only reasons Democrats are against this is because Trump is for it.

That, and the $$$$ they get from Big Ag and Big Food.