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How is it that you can't grasp the concept of having topay for the same thing twice?
I'd really like to know why you can't seem to understand that concept.
Go to the store. Buy a gallon of milk. The price is $4.50, but you have to pay $9.00.
What about that double payment do you not understand?
Because its not true and your point is irrational.
Whenever the food gets eaten at home, that student and the family still ate the food.
The food stamp program exists to provide food to a family for a month. This food can be eaten at any hour in that month, any day of that month etc.
You create this weird and strange understanding of the program and then carry it to double dipping and all of these weird projections that don't make sense because the goal of the program is to provide food for families for one month at a time, not for specific meals and not for specific times. You don't have to sign a food stamp pledge that you'll eat lunch on Tuesdays at 12noon. SMH
Did someone post proof that every one of the families of the approximately 200 kids getting dinner receive SNAP?
If so, please do point me to that post.
If not, the above comments are nothing more than mean-spirited speculation.
I would sure hope we taxpayers aren't having to feed the children of the wealthy also. I'm sure they are on food stamps. Otherwise no way should the taxpayers have to buy their free food.
Why are taxpayers paying for kids' free meals at school that their parents get food stamps to provide?
Why aren't food stamp benefits reduced accordingly for free meals provided at school?
Whenever the food gets eaten at home, that student and the family still ate the food.
The food stamp program exists to provide food to a family for a month. This food can be eaten at any hour in that month, any day of that month etc.
You create this weird and strange understanding of the program and then carry it to double dipping and all of these weird projections that don't make sense because the goal of the program is to provide food for families for one month at a time, not for specific meals and not for specific times. You don't have to sign a food stamp pledge that you'll eat lunch on Tuesdays at 12noon. SMH
I would sure hope we taxpayers aren't having to feed the children of the wealthy also. I'm sure they are on food stamps. Otherwise no way should the taxpayers have to buy their free food.
Free lunch goes to 133% of FPL.
Reduced lunch goes to 185% of FPL.
Did someone post proof that every one of the families of the approximately 200 kids getting dinner receive SNAP?
If so, please do point me to that post.
If not, the above comments are nothing more than mean-spirited speculation.
I really think people would be even more upset if these were rich kids filling their faces at taxpayer expense.
"Likely" is not proof of all.
Unless it can be proven that every single family is "double-dipping" as you call it, anyone who suggests such is either speculating or lying.
Take your pick.
I'm going along with schools feeding these kids -- but we should end the food stamp programs because the parents are using the food stamps to buy expensive cuts of beef, all sorts of junk food. They can spend their child's allotment for big weekend parties -- and believe me -- these people have big weekend parties. They can sell them for liquor, beer, whatever.
The food stamp program is filled with fraud and abuse -- the children aren't being fed by their parents, the taxpayers are having to cough up the money for the free meals at schools. Just have one or the other -- no reason at all for both.
Because its not true and your point is irrational.
Taxpayers are paying TWICE to provide kids the same meals. Once via food stamps, and then a 2nd time via free meals at school.
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