People receiving welfare are complaining they now cannot buy candy and soda with tax money they are given

[Nostra]

The phrase "promote the general Welfare" in the U.S. Constitution refers to the government's responsibility to ensure the well-being and prosperity of its citizens. It indicates a concern for issues such as poverty, housing, and social welfare, emphasizing that the government should act for the collective good of the nation rather than just individual interests. This concept is a fundamental goal of government, as it aims to provide for the welfare of the general public.
American Constitution Society+3

Nowhere in this mandate is mentioned "education". Our government, through the "education" system, keeps the citizens dumb as a rock and dependent. Worse, people are content with this.

From a far left lunatic group with a flowery name.

Apparently, you are too stupid to comprehend the difference between PROMOTE and PROVIDE.

 

[toobfreak]

If one wants to purchase NON NECESSARY ITEMS, PAY FOR THEM YOURSELF.
Welfare should be for staple food products. Milk, bread, meat, vegetables, etc.
Not Kit Kat bars and Dr Pepper.
I love the new restrictions.

I get what you mean, but food stamps are for food. Kit Kats and Dr Pepper are food.

Just consider this: if the government has the right to tell poor and sick people what they can eat, then it is now one step closer to them telling YOU how you can eat too.

Their reasoning? Eating junk food adds to health insurance costs and a greater burder to society.

How do they enforce it? By tracking junk food sales at the grocer via your credit cards, etc., then the insurance companies buy that info and add a premium to your health insurance.

Don't be surprised when it happens, and just remember, you opened the door to it.

Bad outcomes are always lined by the best of intentions.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

It seems you guys love punishing the poor for being poor.

Why not put a big loudspeaker above each cash register when someone uses and EBT Card that calls out, "POOR PEOPLE, EVERYONE, POOR PEOPLE!!!"

You think encouraging people to eat rot gut nasty unhealthy ultra processed foods is good? Lol. Wow.

 

[skye]

I like it!

People receiving welfare are complaining they now cannot buy candy and soda with tax money they are given​

 

[Lockback]

You think encouraging people to eat rot gut nasty unhealthy ultra processed foods is good? Lol. Wow.

He's not ... normal. Not at all. He sniffs the odors of communism and says, "Wow, that smells great!"

 

[Nostra]

I get what you mean, but food stamps are for food. Kit Kats and Dr Pepper are food.

Just consider this: if the government has the right to tell poor and sick people what they can eat, then it is now one step closer to them telling YOU how you can eat too.

Their reasoning? Eating junk food adds to health insurance costs and a greater burder to society.

How do they enforce it? By tracking junk food sales at the grocer via your credit cards, etc., then the insurance companies buy that info and add a premium to your health insurance.

Don't be surprised when it happens, and just remember, you opened the door to it.

Bad outcomes are always lined by the best of intentions.

They can still eat anything they want.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

I never minded people who really need help but the system is so f****** abused ... Not only that we feed the most immigrants... And they stay on it for years. when my ancestors came over they didn't get any food stamps

Forget about blacks who make it a generational thing they're barely a drop in the bucket...although The fat black women need to be cut off from the processed food and the snacky treats it is a good move nobody ever taught them how to eat healthy hopefully they'll figure it out themselves...compared to what we give away to the third world f****** animals infesting our nation to vote Dem... The native black population in America is a tiny drop in the bucket...

Want a chocolate cake you can easily make one yourself from scratch... With food stamps .. you just can't buy The poisoned Little Debbie mass produced garbage

The makers of chips and doodles and Doritos and all those tasty poisoned munchies had to lower their prices because people on food stamps can't buy them with food stamps... I do like a poison cheese doodle every now and then I really do

 

[JoeB131]

You think encouraging people to eat rot gut nasty unhealthy ultra processed foods is good? Lol. Wow.

Then let's ban those things for everyone, not just the poor.

The thing is, you wingnuts lost your minds when Bloomberg tried to ban Big Gulps.

You lost your minds when Michelle Obama tried to put more veggies in the School Lunch program.

So it seems this is less about "concern trolling" about healthy eating and more "Let's find a new way to shame poor people!"

 

[JoeB131]

He's not ... normal. Not at all. He sniffs the odors of communism and says, "Wow, that smells great!"

You're the ones who want to tell poor people what they can and can't eat.

I never minded people who really need help but the system is so f****** abused ... Not only that we feed the most immigrants... And they stay on it for years. when my ancestors came over they didn't get any food stamps

Um, okay, about that. Have you seen pictures of those old-timey immigrants? Wait, my dad was one of those old-timey immigrants, coming over here as a baby from Germany in 1925. Ran right smack dab into the middle of the Great Depression. Because food on the table wasn't a regular thing (Farmers were dumping their milk in protest because no one could afford to buy it) by the time he grew up, he stood all of 5'4" (By comparison, all three of his sons are 5'10" - 5'11")

Oh, most immigrants aren't eligible for food stamps.

Forget about blacks who make it a generational thing they're barely a drop in the bucket...although The fat black women need to be cut off from the processed food and the snacky treats it is a good move nobody ever taught them how to eat healthy hopefully they'll figure it out themselves...compared to what we give away to the third world f****** animals infesting our nation to vote Dem... The native black population in America is a tiny drop in the bucket...

Well, that's not true, either. Blacks make up 13% of the population, Hispanics make up 17%, and Asians make up about 6%. Seems the bucket is pretty evenly distributed.

Want a chocolate cake you can easily make one yourself from scratch... With food stamps .. you just can't buy The poisoned Little Debbie mass produced garbage

The makers of chips and doodles and Doritos and all those tasty poisoned munchies had to lower their prices because people on food stamps can't buy them with food stamps... I do like a poison cheese doodle every now and then I really do

Then we should ban those things for everyone, not just poor people, if you are really that concerned.

 

[rightwinger]

Total horseshit from an undereducated boob! You should have studied more!

He is 100 percent correct

 

[rightwinger]

From a far left lunatic group with a flowery name.

Apparently, you are too stupid to comprehend the difference between PROMOTE and PROVIDE.

Our Constitution includes both the terms PROMOTE and PROVIDE

The phrase “provide for the general welfare” comes from the United States Constitution, and it appears in two key places:

• Preamble: “…promote the general Welfare…”
• Article I, Section 8: gives Congress power to tax and spend to “provide for the…general Welfare of the United States.”

 

[mudwhistle]

The Constitution notes what the government can't do, not what they can do specifically.

Actually the Constitution says both.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Im for healthy food but in moderation candies are healthy too chocolate is good for the brain

Fair enough. Let’s add candy that is deemed healthy according to Science. Dark chocolate comes to mind. Skittles and Mountain Dew are most likely NOT part of the healthy candy and soda list.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I get what you mean, but food stamps are for food. Kit Kats and Dr Pepper are food.

Just consider this: if the government has the right to tell poor and sick people what they can eat, then it is now one step closer to them telling YOU how you can eat too.

Their reasoning? Eating junk food adds to health insurance costs and a greater burder to society.

How do they enforce it? By tracking junk food sales at the grocer via your credit cards, etc., then the insurance companies buy that info and add a premium to your health insurance.

Don't be surprised when it happens, and just remember, you opened the door to it.

Bad outcomes are always lined by the best of intentions.

Not really. The government is, in no way telling anyone what they can eat. If you want a Rockstar and DingDongs, give up a hair weave and buy it yourself. If you don't want purchases tracked, use cash.

 

[Mac-7]

Our Constitution includes both the terms PROMOTE and PROVIDE

The phrase “provide for the general welfare” comes from the United States Constitution, and it appears in two key places:

• Preamble: “…promote the general Welfare…”
• Article I, Section 8: gives Congress power to tax and spend to “provide for the…general Welfare of the United States.”

The general welfare should be limited to spending that benefits everyone

A bridge for instance thst anyone can use

Taxes collected and the money given to specific individuals for their comfort are not the “general welfare”

 

[rightwinger]

The general welfare should be limited to spending that benefits everyone

A bridge for instance thst anyone can use

Taxes collected and the money given to specific individuals for their comfort are not the “general welfare”

Impossible
No spending benefits everyone equally.

Also, the wealthy benefit from welfare

 

[sartre play]

The same Republicans who scream that poor people can’t have candy and soda were the same ones who screamed at Michelle Obama for saying schools should not serve candy and soda

Have we gone nuts? now we are fighting over some people buying candy!

 

[toobfreak]

If you want a Rockstar and DingDongs, give up a hair weave and buy it yourself. If you don't want purchases tracked, use cash.

I hear ya, but again, some people get food stamps for very legitimate reasons, they might be very sick, don't qualify for welfare, get no cash, have precious little money barely surviving, no one if getting a hair weave, there is no high living off the hog, they are in a very desperate, bad way, and really need those food stamps. Some people need candy bars around to help moderate their diabetes, and might need cola to mix with a little alcohol to help settle their nerves and help them sleep because the doctor won't give them pain killers or tranquilizers.

All I'm saying is that whenever you apply a blanket rule blindly across a large, diverse group of people, you are bound to effect some people in ways not intended, often affecting the least targeted people the most in fact, people who are already right on the edge of surviving whom this law could make surviving even harder.

For instance, cutting out junk food will not save the state or taxpayers a penny--- all it will do is slightly change what the allotted money goes towards paying for, people will still get the same allotment to spend and they will spend it, and probably easily find a way around the law by buying cake, ice cream, cookies, pastry--- some other fashion of junk food still covered.

And like I said, by doing this, we have allowed the government to really open the door into telling everyone how to eat at some point in the future, trying to make you eat better by some extra tax on junk food, higher insurance rates for people who buy it, etc. It is coming.

Some politician will reason that the new "no junk" policy has worked SO WELL on the poor, dying, handicapped and disabled that they need to do it to EVERYONE.

 

[toobfreak]

Have we gone nuts? now we are fighting over some people buying candy!

Proof once again how the bulk of society is susceptible to psy-ops and can be coerced into believing and voting for anything to give away yet one more of their freedom to an even bigger government.

I just can't wait now to hear the bellyaching when it is announced in a few years a new health initiative for everyone by placing new, confiscatory taxes on "junk food" (including everyone's favorite cakes, pies, pastries, cookies, pizza, hamburgers, fries, shakes, and ice cream) while orchestrating with insurance to fine people who don't live or eat the way they want by charging them higher insurance rates!

Frankly I'm a little surprised that companies like Hershey and the other giant candy makers are not suing the government yet for discriminatory practices by banning their food from SNAP as I expect this move will cost them a loss of revenue. Their products have been singled out by the government as "bad."

A Snickers bar is the new cigarettes and liquor. There shall be none of that for the hoi polloi.

That is not how capitalism is supposed to work. Capitalism is supplies meeting demands. People voting for this just voted for soft fascism, rationalized for a good to the state that the state will not ever even see.

 

[rightwinger]

Have we gone nuts? now we are fighting over some people buying candy!

No desert for you
It will spoil your dinner