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SNAP Reform and Unhealthy Food and Beverage Taxation to Reduce the Need for Medicaid
self | 08/04/2017 | Brian Griffin

Posted on 08/04/2017 10:05:45 AM PDT by Brian Griffin

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1 posted on 08/04/2017 10:05:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Another idiot
...just give people rice, beans, veggies, chicken (or some cheap meat) and make them cook their own damn meals


2 posted on 08/04/2017 10:09:47 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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They need to make all processed food ineligible for SNAP. Red Meat and Cheese are A-OK. LFHC is the way to get healthy, lose weight and drastically reduce diabetes as well.


3 posted on 08/04/2017 10:13:42 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: Brian Griffin

Some folks need a word tax.


4 posted on 08/04/2017 10:16:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: Brian Griffin

No taxes but I do agree food stamps etc should not be used for pop, beer, candy, cigarettes, fast food. PERIOD. Like another poster I would rather we give out food instead of food stamps.


5 posted on 08/04/2017 10:16:41 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Brian Griffin

Granted, mathematically NO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ARE SUSTAINABLE.

That said, remember how much we HATED Mooch 0bama telling us and our kids what or what NOT to eat?

I would like to see more strings attached to food choices for those getting SNAP, though. Government programs are NEVER going to go away, so we may as well make them as undesirable as we possibly can - make SNAP more like WIC where you’re limited on the things OTHERS PAY FOR so your offspring won’t starve.

And, FWIW, the Little Libertarian in me is jumping up and down and having a tantrum right now. She wants NONE of this. NONE OF IT! ;)


6 posted on 08/04/2017 10:18:33 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Brian Griffin

“Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that man behind the tree.” The late Sen. Russell B. Long, (D, LA)................


7 posted on 08/04/2017 10:21:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: rb22982
>>They need to make all processed food ineligible for SNAP.

That would reduce the size of the herd in more than one way.

It would also reduce profits for the pharmasurance syndicate, and associated "investors".

"COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM...
...EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE"
--Thomas Jefferson



8 posted on 08/04/2017 10:23:13 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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I rent to the “poor.” They smoke, drink, and do drugs. They are not interested or concerned about their health. They would turn down a healthy meal for the convenience of sitting on the couch and munching comfort food. They weren’t raised with healthy food and don’t care what food costs. They are completely different in their attitudes from what we in the middle class think. None of the taxes achieve the ends the do-gooders plan. The plans just bring more misery.


9 posted on 08/04/2017 10:23:23 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: McGavin999

I used to think that, but I’m becoming more inclined to let them be allowed to purchase anything that will shorten their lives. I’m sick of supporting them.


10 posted on 08/04/2017 10:23:34 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: Brian Griffin

One hundred percent of the idiots who spew the no read meat line need to go teach in Japan for several and see their level of anemia in person.

That isn’t genetic.


11 posted on 08/04/2017 10:28:16 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd
I concur.

I'm also in favor of disallowing red meat for SNAP, after watching EBT users buying $14/lb steaks that I haven't been able to afford in years. If they must have it, then cap allowable meat prices @ $5/lb. That's still a high enough ceiling to get the mid-grade leaner ground beef.

12 posted on 08/04/2017 10:44:59 AM PDT by thescourged1
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To: Larry Lucido

See his Freeper page? Yowser


13 posted on 08/04/2017 10:48:44 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: Brian Griffin

Only registered and inspected vegan food stores should be eligible for SNAP.


14 posted on 08/04/2017 11:05:17 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Brian Griffin

It will be labeled as a “racist law”.


15 posted on 08/04/2017 11:10:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Brian Griffin

Yer just a regular ole government supremacist aren’t ya?


16 posted on 08/04/2017 11:13:14 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (I'm tired of the Cult of Clinton. Wish she would just pass out the Koolaide)
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To: Brian Griffin

Of course they go too far.

Just eliminate highly sugared products from SNAP.
If the kids want sweets the parents can make them. It’s not like they’re too busy doing anything productive.


17 posted on 08/04/2017 11:16:16 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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the screwball forgot to tax the air we breath. . . .


18 posted on 08/04/2017 11:20:38 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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My feeling is that Americans who think they might live long enough to get Alzheimer’s or have had colon cancer might wish to avoid eating red meat after reaching about 50 years of age. “

Absolute nonsense.

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19 posted on 08/04/2017 11:23:03 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Larry Lucido

“Some folks need a word tax”

I believe it is important to express ideas in full detail.

Health care payment reform has failed so far simply because the politicians hadn’t thought it out fully and discussed reform in detail.


20 posted on 08/04/2017 11:27:50 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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