GOP wants to ban foodstamp-purchased junk food

[Libertarian California]

A better solution would be to gradually phase in healthier foods.

What do you mean phase in?

As in, gradually make more healthier foods SNAP-eligible.

[-The Unified Earth Governments-]

Oh for fucks sake, they never fail to deliver.

[Siaos]

Great idea, foodstamps really shouldn't be used on non-essential food, its for the very poor who would starve without them. Also, it would lower obesity by 0.0000000000001%, so there's that.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

I get the feeling the "breasts" vote has served as a major spoiler in the poll up there.

[Shaggai]

What do you mean phase in?

As in, gradually make more healthier foods SNAP-eligible.

Or just cheaper. That would work too.

[Dyakovo]

What do you mean phase in?

As in, gradually make more healthier foods SNAP-eligible.

Healthy foods are eligible for SNAP...
If its food and isn't pre-prepared it can be bought with funds from SNAP.

[Ethel mermania]

What do you mean phase in?

As in, gradually make more healthier foods SNAP-eligible.

the only human food things not eligible for food stamps are prepared foods and booze. You can get fruits, nuts, vegetables, chicken, fish etc. with food stamps.

[Geilinor]

What do you mean phase in?

As in, gradually make more healthier foods SNAP-eligible.

The healthiest foods should always have been SNAP eligible. Anything else is a bad idea.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

If it's food, and it doesn't contain alcohol, then it's SNAP eligible.

[Grenartia]

Great idea, foodstamps really shouldn't be used on non-essential food, its for the very poor who would starve without them. Also, it would lower obesity by 0.0000000000001%, so there's that.

As somebody who had to depend on foodstamps, I'll simply say that this is a shitty idea.

First, "junk food" is rather cheap (cheaper than most "health food", and often more filling), and boosts morale (which somebody who is forced to depend on foodstamps often needs). Second, exactly what foods would this mean you can buy? I guarantee well over half the shit you can buy in Walmart qualifies as junk food. Which means you can't get much bang for your buck. I mean, are you going to start forcing people to go to hipster healthfood stores and shit? Then what's the fucking point? I mean, a loaf of gluten-free, whole wheat, suck your dick, wipe your ass bread costs $30. I can run down to the local Dollar General and get a month's worth of bread for that much.

To say nothing of the fact that for the price of that $30 loaf of hipster bread, I could get lunch meat, cheese, chips, and snack cakes for a week at Dollar General.

Which would you rather live off of for a week? $30 hipster bread with nothing else, or sandwiches, chips, and snack cakes?

[Gauthier]

As in, gradually make more healthier foods SNAP-eligible.

The healthiest foods should always have been SNAP eligible. Anything else is a bad idea.

The healthiest foods usually are SNAP eligible. They're just so fucking expensive they eat through the average SNAP recepient's allotment like Gary Busey's nostrils eat through cocaine.

[Ethel mermania]

Great idea, foodstamps really shouldn't be used on non-essential food, its for the very poor who would starve without them. Also, it would lower obesity by 0.0000000000001%, so there's that.

To say nothing of the fact that for the price of that $30 loaf of hipster bread, I could get lunch meat, cheese, chips, and snack cakes for a week at Dollar General.

Which would you rather live off of for a week? $30 hipster bread with nothing else, or sandwiches, chips, and snack cakes?

or you could by the shop right organic eggs which are 20 cents a dozen more than regular eggs, whole wheat bread, rice and beans, you can eat healthy cheap. Chicken is cheap.

again i am against the bill, Good shopping and eating habits need to be learned not forced, but the idea you cant eat healthy on SNAP and only junk is available is absurd.

[Grenartia]

or you could by the shop right organic eggs which are 20 cents a dozen more than regular eggs, whole wheat bread, rice and beans, you can eat healthy cheap. Chicken is cheap.

again i am against the bill, Good shopping and eating habits need to be learned not forced, but the idea you cant eat healthy on SNAP and only junk is available is absurd.

I'm not saying you can't eat relatively healthy on food stamps. What I AM saying is that the logical conclusion of the logic behind this bill is that people on food stamps shouldn't be able to buy anything that isn't found in a hipster health food store. I'm also saying that for a person on food stamps (at least in my personal experience as somebody who lived off of them for a period of time), your main concerns with regards to food (assuming no food allergies) are: Is it filling? Is it cheap? How long will it last?

"Junk food" fulfills most, if not all, of those requirements, especially when consumed in conjunction with non-junk food that can be purchased in places such as Walmart.

[Arumdaum]

The healthiest foods should always have been SNAP eligible. Anything else is a bad idea.

The healthiest foods usually are SNAP eligible. They're just so fucking expensive they eat through the average SNAP recepient's allotment like Gary Busey's nostrils eat through cocaine.

SNAP?

[Dyakovo]

The healthiest foods usually are SNAP eligible. They're just so fucking expensive they eat through the average SNAP recepient's allotment like Gary Busey's nostrils eat through cocaine.

SNAP?

Yes, SNAP.

[Divair]

The healthiest foods usually are SNAP eligible. They're just so fucking expensive they eat through the average SNAP recepient's allotment like Gary Busey's nostrils eat through cocaine.

SNAP?

Food stamps.

[Natair]

I get the feeling the "breasts" vote has served as a major spoiler in the poll up there.

Who wouldn't want to take things seriously? Why wouldn't they be totally serious and never make any jokes?

[Yumyumsuppertime]

I get the feeling the "breasts" vote has served as a major spoiler in the poll up there.

Who wouldn't want to take things seriously? Why wouldn't they be totally serious and never make any jokes?

I mean, for instance, I would never chuckle at how I read the poll options in the voice of Nicolas Cage.

[Ethel mermania]

Who wouldn't want to take things seriously? Why wouldn't they be totally serious and never make any jokes?

I mean, for instance, I would never chuckle at how I read the poll options in the voice of Nicolas Cage.

i would vote for breasts over nicolas Cage, just sayin

[Yumyumsuppertime]

I mean, for instance, I would never chuckle at how I read the poll options in the voice of Nicolas Cage.

i would vote for breasts over nicolas Cage, just sayin

So would Nicolas Cage.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

I get the feeling the "breasts" vote has served as a major spoiler in the poll up there.

Who wouldn't want to take things seriously? Why wouldn't they be totally serious and never make any jokes?

Just saiyan.