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Food Stamps: no more junk food?
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POSTED: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 8:22am
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 11:28am
Florida moving to stop food stamp recipients from buying junk food and sweets
Tyler — If Florida state senator Ronda Storms gets her way, Floridians on the government dole won't be buying sweet and junk food with their food stamps.
Storms noticed shoppers at her local grocer using food stamps to purchase unhealthy junk food, prompting her to push for further restrictions on the usage of SNAP funds.
Should people on food stamps be allowed to satisfy their sweet tooth with taxpayer money? East Texans talk-back with our news partner: KTBB and host Garth Maier.
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Must be nice to receive food stamps. I am a single mom of two teenage kids on a tight income and i make too money. People needs to worry about those who are going hungry
I think if you accept government assistance, it's okay to put some controls on what is distributed. No alcohol, no tobacco, It seems rather mean-spirited, though, to some extent. I do think the same type of controls should be placed on hand-outs to bankers or mortgage companies though. For instance, if drug testing is necessary for poor people receiving food stamps, then all those bankers and financial high-fliers who received government bail out money should be subject to drug-testing as well
Freedom February 7, 2012
at 8:25am
Food stamps are a blatant, inefficient, and divisive form of redistributing wealth and should be ended. See how quickly "help" from the government turns into control.
Once they get you arguing the details of what should be free, you accept the premise that it's the government's job to give out free stuff they collected from someone else.
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