Nebraska to ban food stamps from covering soda

Yeah, let's see how soon these same Rs act to cut the corn subsidy that makes HFCS so cheap to produce and pump into a ridiculous range of foods.

Tragedy

Next your gonna tell me school cafeterias can’t stay open all summer to feed the children of parents who won’t feed their own damn kids.

My city feeds the kids on the playgrounds in the summer.

The parent(s) generally aren't any more mature than the children.

The poor can spend their hard earned money on crap food soda and beer just like the rest of us. If you need my money to feed your fat kids then buy real food with it

bingo. kind of like no one is telling rich kids not to go to college. we have flipped the polarities to "if you want that hostess you can earn it...." what's amusing is his base is poor and HS educated and they buy into politics that are basically against social mobility or the poor having any comfort.

and then he's not really interested in helping the poor -- he's lecturing them to magically help themselves. which, one or two may do it. but the game is most won't.

curious if you folks realize the leading ethnic group on food stamps is white people. because this attack feels very very racially coded. from the same folks who think that crack is a cultural problem but opiates are pharma's fault, not the white folks who take pain meds.

Here's the control freak attitude again. It's clearly not about healthy eating, but about dictating what people can and can't spend "your" money on, as a punishment for needing it.

first, you know what's worse than eating hostess and drinking soda on food stamps, it's having a low limit on the food stamps in general making it harder to eat well if you even wanted. it's having no grocery store in your rundown town. you're fakes. not like you're building a whole foods down the road and subsidizing good eating.

second, if you're not simultaneously taxing or banning similar things from ordinary people at the grocery store then you're just a mean spirited hypocrite, not a bastion of public health.

Pretty soon they’ll ban any good or drink that people actually want to purchase with food stamps.

Don’t care. When you don’t pay for it yourself you forfeit choice over what you can buy.

Exactly, there's little more than self-righteous smugness behind this.

you are so full of crap. i invite you to go to the bad side of town and search for the grocery store with the huge produce section and abundant natural and organic foods options. hint: the "walmart grocery store" or off-brand grocery that bothers to open in the hood, usually has a tiny produce area, and a bunch of cheap junk for sale.

do you not see why expensive vegetables, fruits, meats, etc. might not be there? it's called they don't have money.

i live in a mediocre section of town where my wife bought our house. if i want nice groceries -- and i have a degree and a job -- i have to drive out of here. it is not as simple as get a job and buy it down the street.

and the town i lived in for grad school didn't even have a grocery, poverty was so bad. at which point your choices are takeout, shopping at a drug store, or crossing a bridge on a multi-mile walk with a week's stuff.

you cannot possibly have lived the sh*t you are talking.

and if you want me to get really real, i doubt you make enough money to make any meaningful dent in the food stamps budget. you ain't rich. you don't make enough to control what other folks get to eat.

thanks.

they probably spent your buck-twenty-five in taxes on the first 12 minutes of the next paycheck for the janitor who scrapes and cleans trump's low-fiber sh*t-splatters off the back of the air force one toilet.

And how exactly will restricting the choice of a $1 can of soda be of benefit to taxpayers?

There's already a work requirement of 20 hrs per week (80 hrs per month) for those ABWD (able-bodied without disabilities) between the ages of 18-54. So, if you have guy or gal working a low-wage PT job, let them buy some sugary soft drinks with their snap.

The main thing is you don't want SNAP reecipients buying alcohol or tobacco products -- and that's already prohibited.

They don't have a ton of grocery options because they choose to rob, steal and vandalize. No successful business wants to operate in a crime ridden crap hole where they can't operate successfully and have to deal with daily thefts. If these people would learn how to act appropriately and have a little responsibity, things may be different. It's not a bad thing that tax dollars of hard working responsible people are spent in a responsible manner. When you're spending others people's money, you may have some more limited options. They should be thankful contributing members of society go to work everyday to support them and keep them fed and alive at all.

Long overdue...

I think the differentiating factor is that SNAP is paid for via civilian tax dollars. I’m fine with people buying whatever they want on their own dime, but any government-assistance food we’re funding should need to meet some form of basic nutritional requirement imo.