[babyface00]

it is not the governments role to dictate to anyone what they can and cannot consume.

Is that what the author is argueing? Or is it that the government can and should dictate what the benefit recipient can purchase? Or, more specifically, what they can purchase with taxpayer dollars.

[AbsoluteJustice]

"it is not the governments role to dictate to anyone what they can and cannot consume."

When it is my dime government sure as hell can dictate what they can buy. It isn't his/her money they are throwing up there to buy food it is my dime, the hardworking taxpayer.