more than 75 percent of the bill’s funding is allocated for nutrition assistance for the underprivileged, both in the United States and abroad.
Abroad???? I would vote it down just for that alone. We have 17 trillion in debt but we are sending money in this bill overseas??? No wonder we are sinking. I know that we send other aid to countries through stupid treaties that were signed by different Presidents over the years and we are stuck with that, but I can’t imagine that it is mandatory to send money to other countries from this bill.
We have a $205 trillion debt, net of all taxes. See here:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/01/laurence_kotlik.html