ALL people should be allowed to choose what to eat.
Taxpayers shouldn’t be made to pay for their bad decision making.
I agree. Only if they are paying for their own food and not the taxpayers.
Only if using your own money
Before EBT, dirtbags would structure small purchases to get maximum change. Then tbey’d pester people outside the store to do it for them. Enough pocket change, and they could buy cigs or beer. There’s a guy walking the streets, today, that stabbed a couple of people (one fatally) for refusing to go along with his little scheme. Probably some retailers that would oblige by buying Food Stamps at a fraction of face value. Now, with EBT, they fo yhe bottled water scam. Buy cheap water, dump it out, and get the cash deposit on the bottles.
All people who pay for their own food get to choose. Those on EBT? Beggars can’t be choosers…
He forgot to add Medicare going broke and millions losing insurance or rural hospital coverage or both. They can pay for diabetes with pocket change as well.
“”ALL people should be allowed to choose what to eat.””
Noooo! Nooooooo! Not poor people.... not people at poverty level.... they should not be allowed to choose what they eat. They are beggars, after all and beggars do NOT get to choose! Their “choices” should only be beans, rice, government cheese, water and stale bread ... because... taxpayers are paying for it! And taxpayers are the ONLY citizens whose wishes and opinions really matter, after all. Oh, and muffin bottoms! Those on SNAP should only be allowed to eat the bottoms!!!
(If this seems a bit absurd... this is just how inane most of the twits on these threads sound like to me)
And where does this end? I’ll tell you. The radical leftists get back into power (and they will).... and they will take the RFK Jr. torch precedent... and push it to the max by restricting what “everyone” can or cannot choose to eat. And they’ll say... well the MAGA GOPers did it first. The elitists in power will, of course, continue to consume the food items that they ban for us ‘little people’. It’s how they roll.
Also... RFK Jr. uses hyperbole to describe soda and candy as “poison”. Well, if it’s poison for kids on EBT, then it’s also poison for everyone else, right? So... next step will be to ban soda and candy for everyone else too... if he succeeds in banning it for poverty level folks. And those health monitors he wants everyone to wear.... everyone including the (gasp!) taxpayers. It’s “for the cheeldren”, after all. Do you see how this stuff works?
And for the record... RFK Jr. is still a totalitarian Democrat in my estimation. Most folks are just too dense to “get it”. Just because he gets one or two things/issues right that some on the right agree with (like his stance on vaccines and food dyes used in foods)... doesn’t make ‘him’ right on everything else. Camel nose in the tent stuff here.
“Restrictions won’t make a bit of difference.”
Umm, you don’t know that, likely it would be the first time millions of recipients would be getting a hint that junk food is unhealthy.
Either way, I agree that they can spend their money however they like. Food stamps are not their money, it’s from taxpayers. It should go much farther on restrictions - Only rice, beans, vegetables, unsweetened dairy, chicken, fish and ground beef would be my policy.
“ALL people should be allowed to choose what to eat.”
When someone else is paying, they choose.
Taxpayers shouldn’t fund crap (which is also expensive).
Let them go out of pocket to buy sweets. Let it hurt them personally.
On THEIR own dime.
Not when it's free government handouts. If they take FREE money from the government, they should take the restrictions on it so it's more likely to be used for what it's intended instead of being able to be traded as a black market form of currency for drugs.
If they don't like the strings, then work for your own money like the rest of us or grow it yourself.
“ALL people should be allowed to choose what to eat.”
Of course, but that’s not the point. Junior is not telling people they can’t eat junk, he’s saying the taxpayers should not be paying for it. You are free to destroy yourselves, but don’t make us pay for it. A huge difference.