Texas bill to ban food stamps for junk food (regular, lobby, dollars)
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The most effective way to stop people from eating junk food is do what they did with alcohol: prohibition. Take it out of stores. Don't make it available. But even then some people will try to get some.
Didn’t work with Alcohol, not working with drugs, why would it work here?
Also, killing the junk food industry would kill our farmers. All that damn corn and wheat has to go somewhere.
This is what happens when rich people try to make laws for poor people. Poor people always figure out a way to get over. Like buying steaks and ribs with food stamps and trading them for $.70 to the $1.00 for cash. Forget about it, its already a thing to make cash out of food stamps. They are already using them for cigarette and beer money.
I never said that junk food would ever help the consumer. I am saying this. Alot of people love junk food. Many who use food stamps work. Stop people from getting junk food through food stamps, those who work will get the junk food in other ways.
And consider this. Oil, flour, and chicken aren't THAT expensive. You can get those items with food stamps. Technically, they aren't classified as junk food. However, coat the chicken in flour and then fry in it oil, you have another source of obesity right there. And consider something more. A diet heavy in starch and and low in physical activity contributes to obesity. Junk food is a big part of the obesity problem. So are other problems, like a diet heavy on the refined starches.
The most effective way to stop people from eating junk food is do what they did with alcohol: prohibition. Take it out of stores. Don't make it available. But even then some people will try to get some.
Bag of potatoes, oil, salt - voila! Potato chips! Or French fries.
The rules of buying food on SNAP are simple - no hot prepared food, and nothing without a Nutrition Facts label. Junk food has the Nutrition Facts label, so it's legal to buy on SNAP. People who receive SNAP buy junk food at virtually identical levels as people not on SNAP. If you want to decrease junk food buying, educate the ENTIRE populace, don't demonize people on assistance.
lol No it usually means they aren't working enough hours. Working 20 hours a week qualifies an individual for food stamps.
$10 per hour over 40 hours of work is $400 a week. Then take it that one gets paid every 2 weeks. $800 a check. Then take the taxes into account. Then take into account alot of working people on food stamps are single mothers with kids. And then add in the rent. In order to make enough money to take care of a family of 4 or 5 on a Wal-Mart wage, one would have to work 80-90 per week.
The GOP gets to humiliate poor people with it. That's something, no?
That's a weird way to look at it. I see it as reaching a sensible compromise... we'll help you by paying for your food, and you help us by trying to make your life better so that hopefully you can get back on your feet again.
Good. It’s supposed to be for basics. It’s not intended for chips and candy.
And like a good GOP'er you know just the right amount of welfare, socialism and dietary expertise.
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