9% of food stamps goes to soda... Just insanity.

These people would be supporting it if Michelle Obama said it in 2011 at the same time as she tried to make school lunches more healthy. It's just outrage because the bad team is doing this.

/r/foodstamps is just a whole bunch of seething over ideas like this along with posts like "I'm losing my benefits because I lied about my income, what do I do?"

They will be angry at first and screech that Trump has betrayed them, but with help of RFK, by midterm the average republican will look like this:

We can share, bb

Why do people always make this mistake? Even Alabama still has 35% lib voters. People in majority red states vote red because they hate those fat welfare leeches around them.

like everything the guy is doing is hurting rurals, I'm becoming an actual Trump supporter based on how much damage he's doing to rurals.

I'd put a popcorn Marsey here, but my food stamps wouldn't cover it

funny you talk about popcorn because I just recently ordered 3kgs of popcorn kernels and 1.5kg of cheese seasoning powder

Republicans understand the value of tough love

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Nice quints!

>foaming at the mouth about how terrible her changes were if you ever ask them about it.

SHE TOOK AWAY MY TENDIES!!!

I had cousins in school texting me their lunches, they made shit worse and took anything worth while out, and basically banned the lunch ladies from cooking like ours used to like to do.

Do they still have the rectangular pizza slices?

t. Zoomer.

I enjoyed lunch at my rich school, they even had a rotating selection of soups.

It sucked and it was all her/their fault, but I appreciate it was more effort than presidential admins have put in in years. Obesity has been on the back burner when it's going to destroy this country worse than s or christcucks.

It's really funny seeing /r/talesfromretail and /r/retailhell have struggle sessions over EBT recipients. They want to deny the stereotypes but their brains will always notice the patterns

I still refer to that as "The Fudge Rounds Song" and my wife hates it

It's easier to include than to exclude. I'd say only allow water, vegetables, chicken and gym memberships to be bought.

Once saw a black lady buying like 40 boxes of prepackaged cornbread mix on stamps. Drove me crazy, b-word just buy flour and cornmeal

This might be the most moderate and reasonable political take posted on the internet in the last 10 years

>You can have crazy unhealthy whole food diets and healthy UPF diets.

Proving it's good to buy candy and soda for poor people.

>[Hate slur]s will get scurvy if they ban SNAP from getting juice.

[Hate slur]s don't buy juice, they buy drink. These are great quibbles to have but we can tweak the details after passing a bill that's 95% on the money. And it's virtually impossible to not hit your Vitamin C requirement in America.

>Economically the administrative overhead is rarely worth the savings made when they try and do shit like this too.

If you define "shit like this" to include shit entirely unlike this. SNAP cost $95 billion in 2024 and 9% of that was soda. If it costs 8.5 billion dollars to change the eligibility of something in the food stamp system the program should be eliminated. People are trying to compare overwrought means testing schemes to a simple reclassification that we do all the time and for every new food product.

>The most effective way to deal with the issue is added sugar tax. Mexico did one recently that reduced soda consumption by 12%.

The issue isn't "Americans are fat," the issue is "taxpayers are paying for unnecessary things."

>Cheese & pasta are part of the fatty and heath problem. Low quality carbs and excessive SFAs.

They are better than soda and candy and this isn't a health food plan, it's about not letting poors piss away our money.

Give every American a one-time coupon for a free Crockpot and publish PDFs on how to make easy roasts. A $12 chuck roast can feed a family of four twice with some potatoes. I'm making french dip sandwiches in mine tonight

Economically the administrative overhead is rarely worth the savings made when they try and do shit like this too.

There's already shit that's not allowed on SNAP and WIC. It's almost trivial blocking this stuff. First off, stop letting people use EBT at 7-11/other convenience stores and then tell Walmart/Kroger/Albertsons/Publix to disallow the items.

I'd rather the poors be less fat. Would rather be less grossed out every day

If they made good decisions they wouldn't be poors

So you can buy booze using unemployment benefits but during COVID they sent restricted benefits to the same unemployment cards.

It took them about a week for them to implement a blocker at the liquor stores and I was pretty sure we'd see another chimpout. Didn't last long thankfully.

I worked at a small grocery store in a rich town. One time a lady in a nice suv got out with her fat goblin kids and waddled in to buy soda and candy with EBT. I was literally borrowing money to pay rent at the time. Unfortunately PizzaBIPOC is too smart to work the register so he would never see this kinda tomfoolery

That or they use EBT to buy expensive shit, like steaks, because they have illegal income that can pay for their basic needs.

Worked as a cashier (and got ebt as a student so I've been on both ends) and yeah holy frick so many people used EBT on soda. Just disallowing soda alone would be enough, it was disgusting. I'm just thankful I like to cook so when I was on it I actually ate real food and not slop. The worst I'd get is some ice cream but if they said "You can't get ice cream anymore" I'd literally just get heavy cream and make my own. People that can't make their own snacks are ngmi.

Not as beautiful as you.

This strawhold is unaffected

which is ok

if people want to spend their own income on junk then they should be allowed, at least this way they can't just try to live off mainly cat 2

They'll spend their own money on everything SNAP can cover, then get into a fistfight with the cashier when they try to use it on ineligible items.