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Consider how little recipients get for food stamps ($100-250/month and can only be used for certain items and in certain stores), this is just turning the screw
by 1letterunixname 4y ago
Consider how little recipients get for food stamps ($100-250/month and can only be used for certain items and in certain stores), this is just turning the screws on the poor.
- rasz 4y agohttps://www.cnbc.com/2010/12/01/soda-subsidy-gives-tax-dollars-to-beverage-companies.html https://www.cnbc.com/2010/12/01/soda-subsidy-gives-tax-dolla... https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/29/659634119/food-stamps-for-soda-time-to-end-billion-dollar-subsidy-for-sugary-drinks#:~:text=SNAP%20households%20spend%20about%2010,amount%20they%20spend%20on%20milk https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/29/659634119/fo... https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/coca-cola-to-face-criticism-for-food-stamp-lobbying-6583712 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/coca-cola-to-face-...
- dole 4y agoThese are rather old sources (2010, 2013, 2018), not that I doubt the lobbying continues but that the there’s better things to focus on, gains to be made than chasing after soda SNAP expenditure edge cases.
- rasz 4y agoApparently this edge case was 40% of US CocaCola 2022 revenue.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoPetro-agribusiness is a racket. The US subsidizes cheap, unhealthy crops like cow corn to manufacture HFCS. Without subsidies, cane sugar would likely be cheaper than HFCS or beet sugar. And that Walmart can grossly underpay its employees so much that they need social benefits to survive is another indirect, but pervasive and perverse, transfer of wealth from the lower and middle to the wealthy owners of corporations.