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To: Enterprise

It will never happen. It would only add more nanniness to the nanny state, as well as create nightmares for retailers and their normal paying customers. Existing stamp quotas in dollars work about as well as anything to encourage frugality. USDA surveys from the Bush II era show that stamp recipients include fewer, not more junk foods in their food orders than paying customers do.


32 posted on 02/21/2012 10:40:19 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

People who use food stamps are already by definition Nanny Staters. If they don’t like being unable to buy meat with their stamps, then they should get off the stamps. But yes, I am aware that changing the rules doesn’t mean changing behavior. Fraudsters will always find a way.


33 posted on 02/21/2012 11:51:58 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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