[o_zarkman44]

Now that is an idea worth considering. I often see food stamps buying more soda than I can afford.

[Buckeye McFrog]

HA! Like to see ‘em try! This Congress appears to fear the people in no way (except of course an angry mob of Pepsi or Mountain Dew-deprived welfare recipients rioting in the streets!)

[catman67]

Should just go back to “free food” handouts. Direct distribution of foodstuffs. Worked great for us when my father lost his job back in the early ‘60s.

[Buckeye McFrog]

not to mention...what about our vaunted Ethanol Lobby of Corn Farmers and Grain Belt Congresscritters? You start shutting down demand for HFCS and there is gonna be HELL to PAY!

[Spudx7]

I assumed it already wasn’t allowed. Does this mean that food stamps can be used to purchase chips, ice cream and candy, too? Good grief.

[OCCASparky]

Meanwhile, steak and lobster are perfectly fine. I see shopping carts full of that stuff and the like on the first weekend of the month, paid for with EBT cards, pushed out to near-new "dualie" trucks, then hear the same people bitch about how they're not making it because they're not given "enough."

Whatever happened to the old expression, "Whoever shall not work, neither shall he eat?"

[Sacajaweau]

They'll just trade them...there's no point to it.

And guess what...milk has calories, too.

[albie]

I’d like to see soda banned from food stamps but for a completely different reason. Take away soda, sweets, salt, potato chip type snacks etc. Piss these leaches off and see if any decide to work for a paycheck!

[Buckeye McFrog]

When Pepsico spent untold millions of dollars changing their logo to resemble the Obama “Hope and Change” icon, somehow I can’t see where this is ever gonna happen.

[Tribune7]

How about the only thing you should be allowed to buy with food stamps is milk, eggs and grain in bulk?

OK, I'll include fruit and veggies too.

[Real Cynic No More]

I would argue caloric soda should be made ineligible for purchase under SNAP

This is ironic. They want to remove choice when people select food products, but they want to allow choice when it comes to abortions.

If they're successful doing this, it seems to me a precedent would be established for reversing Roe v Wade.

[concerned about politics]

I heard a politically correct diet dictator on FOX yesterday saying that the obesity problem was mostly a poor or disadvantaged problem. I thought the same thing as Patterson - prohibit food stamps from buying junk food. That way, the people remain free, and the obesity among the one-a-month crowd is corrected.
If the once-a-monthers are going to sell their souls to the Devil, then they're going to have to pay their union dues with a pound of flesh - literally.

[sickoflibs]

I honestly didn't know they can buy soda with food stamps. Idiots! I know there are sugary cereals they cannot buy with food stamps because I see the new immigrants that cannot read English holding up the express line at my food store.

At the same time they wanted to put a federal tax on our soda to pay for Health Reform. Idiots #2

[fml]

Good!

[From The Deer Stand]

I have a friend who is a clerk in a food store. She said those with gub’ment food cards buy the expensive crackers, chocolates, etc. that she can’t afford to buy. So much for subsidies.

[Inwoodian]

No stamps for Nehi Grape Soda? None for Kools cigarettes? What’s next- none for Barbecue Potato Chips?

[Arrowhead1952]

Hey, I have a better idea.

Congress should 'look at' banning all food stamp purchases

[metesky]

When you eat goobermint chit, you eat the chit they give ya.

Try explaining that to one of the "i'm gettin' over" class and you get a less than blank look.

[kittymyrib]

Ban Food Stamps. They are illegally traded for booze, prostitutes, and cash.
Open commodity stores where nutritious foods would be given to the poor to be cooked at home...no Sara Lee cakes, Cokes, chips etc. Obesity would be halted in its tracks.
If the government is telling us what to eat, it should only pay for caloric necessities, not fattening frills, in their feeding programs.

[TexasFreeper2009]

you should only be able to buy the staples with food stamps, just enought to keep you alive.