This doesn’t actually solve anything, there will still be food deserts where the only store in town is a dollar store.
It’s as easy as taking candy from children… No but really, as someone on SNAP, candy is a small and rare joy in life.
Boo to high fructose!
I hate high fructose too but doing this is just unnecessarily shitting on the poor.
Because if it’s bad, it’s bad for everybody. Buying food using SNAP benefits doesn’t magically transform it into something unhealthy. Given that’s the case, we should just ban soda and candy for everybody. But, that’s not the proposal. Presumably, people with more money have the self-control to make informed, rational decisions about whether to buy it? Not like those poors, who can’t be trusted not to blow all of their limited funds on junk food. (<-- There it is. There’s the shitting on the poor part.)
Isn’t that the case to some extent already? At least I know the WIC program has certain allowed items for it, so kind of presuming SNAP has similar policies.
SNAP is way less restrictive than WIC. SNAP is pretty much no prepared food, etoh or cigarettes but whatever else is good.
Ah, been quite a while since I interacted with any of them personally, like when my middle kid was born ago so it’s a bit fuzzy. I recall WIC was pretty specific lists like you get 2 milks and one cereal and one thing of eggs…
WIC (was) insanely specific when I worked grocery 20 years ago. I mean down to oz in the paper things, and the machine would get grumpy if the cereals were off that even by a little. And everything had to be scanned, then scan in the papers and hope it worked. Loved the ladies who made that the entire section with each paper on top of its respective foods. Easier.
Snap, even back then, was just a card and convered almost everything (no hot, no prepared, no alcohol, no smokes)
So there is at least one sane thought in his brain.
Nope. It’s already the case in a lot of States and you can almost guarantee the changes will break the system.
