I’m all for exempting junk foods from Food Siamps.
But packaging has to make it easy to tell or there’ll be chaos at the cash registers.
Most questionable items are marked.
“I’m all for exempting junk foods from Food Siamps.
But packaging has to make it easy to tell or there’ll be chaos at the cash registers.”
Easy to solve; no packaged, processed or canned food. Food stamps should be limited to four areas:
1. Fresh fruits & vegetables
2. Fresh Dairy like milk, cheese, eggs, cream of all kinds - excluding deli
3. Fresh and frozen meats - excluding deli.
4. Household cleaning supplies like soap, shampoo and detergents.
If they want a starch let them buy potatoes, yams, taro other starchy root vegetables. This would force them to cook and cooking is a marketable skill. If they want a loaf of bread or bag of macaroni then find a way to pay for it in cash.
No bread, no noodles, no beer, no pizza, no coffee, no tea, no soda, no candy, no canned items, nothing frozen except non-processed meats, no tobacco. I am not against those things if you buy them with your own money.
This would remove most of the fraud. I don’t mind people using the system buying nice thing. I just want them to buy food and not junk. I also want the system to be a little inconvenient so that that they have a built in incentive to get off it.