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> fudge rounds It's a typical conservative talking point, because it's true. https://www.ebtcardbalance.com/georgia-ebt-food-list-ef9 https://www.ebtcardbalan
by brodouevencode 3y ago
> fudge rounds
It's a typical conservative talking point, because it's true.
https://www.ebtcardbalance.com/georgia-ebt-food-list-ef9 https://www.ebtcardbalance.com/georgia-ebt-food-list-ef9
> From the USDA guidelines above, you can purchase the following items using your EBT card.
> Soft drinks
> Candy
> Cookies
> Snack crackers
> Ice cream
> Seafood such as lobster and shellfish
> Steaks
> Bakery cakes
I followed a woman in Publix the other day who used a SNAP card to purchase crab legs. A very take-a-deep-breath-and-count-to-ten moment.
- baerrie 3y agoWhy were you following someone? Also, you can use money to but crab legs, why not SNAP?
- cherry_tree 3y agoIt’s wild to me that people will say out of one side of their mouth “the government is too big, it wants to control our lives and thoughts!” And out the other side say “the government needs to be more in control of what poor people are eating”
- nonethewiser 3y agoI guess the point is that only conservatives care that public funds are contributing to obesity.
- r00fus 3y agoAnecdotes != data. Your one example is the exception that proves the rule. https://www.cbpp.org/research/snap-is-effective-and-efficient https://www.cbpp.org/research/snap-is-effective-and-efficien...
- brodouevencode 3y agoShow me a distribution of how SNAP money is spent, breaking down by classifications of the food the USDA listed.
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- mempko 3y agoSo you are saying poor people should only eat bad, cheap food? What's your point exactly?
- brodouevencode 3y agoYou can support a solution without supporting it's implementation.
- enterprise_cog 3y agoIf that truly was your point, you wouldn’t have needed to include your little story about how upset you were seeing someone use their EBT card in a way you disapprove of.
- brodouevencode 3y agoThen you've mis-projected my point twice. I'm not totally opposed to welfare benefits especially when it comes to food and housing. I'm not opposed to having healthy food as an option - in fact I would rather those foods be the only option. But crab legs at nearly $30/lbs is abusive compared to wild-caught salmon at half that price, or free range chicken at a third of that price. Stop trolling for outrage.
- archagon 3y agoHow far do you go? Should organic chicken be allowed over factory farmed? Fresh chicken over canned? Fresh milk over shelf stable, or shelf stable over powdered? Why not just feed everyone on food stamps a vitamin slurry?
- enterprise_cog 3y agoYou’re the one posting (most likely fake) stories to push your ideology and drum up outrage. So who is trolling again? Also, how are you so arrogant to assume your opinions on food should dictate what people should eat?
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- sumuyuda 3y agoI would be more than happy if my tax money could bring joy to these people who normally couldn’t afford these things. Make better to have the money spent on luxury food items than killing people in foreign countries.
- pseudo0 3y agoThat's easy for us to say, most working well-compensated tech jobs. The guy working overtime hours for bullshit pay would rather the government pay for neither and give a few dollars of his taxes back. Also, for the folks calling this a conservative talking point, Marx and Engels weren't exactly well-disposed towards the lumpenproletariat... Someone who is chronically unemployed by definition is not working class.
- sumuyuda 3y ago> The guy working overtime hours for bullshit pay would rather the government pay for neither and give a few dollars of his taxes back. The problem is the person’s employer is allowed to pay too low a wage. That should be the focus rather than the government for wasting their taxes.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoIf you raise the minimum wage then prices inflate equally. This happens literally every time some bonehead passes a law requiring it. It’s almost like printing more money never solves the problem. The problem is and always has been that the government is greedy and takes income tax, a tax that disproportionately affects the lower economic rungs, for no reason other than to line their own pockets. Alongside the black box that is the federal reserve, that is.
- tivert 3y ago> I would be more than happy if my tax money could bring joy to these people who normally couldn’t afford these things. But then think of the people who also can't afford these things, but are paying into the system rather than taking from it. They'd rightly feel shafted by people buying luxury items on their dime. The perspective of a well-off person who can easily afford to pay into the system and afford most of their chosen luxuries is probably not the right one to take in this case. The point of food stamps is not to give people a taste of luxury, it's to keep them alive and healthy by giving them access to food so they don't go hungry.