Wow we are angry when school lunches are dictated to our children by Moochelle. Why should we dictate what these people eat? Let them eat and drink what they want. With that being said,this number could be much higher in places where taxes for soda are much higher. Stand alone metrics don’t mean anything when nottaken into the context of total amount of cart, what other items were bought at the same time etc. If we are going to get angry at what our government dicttes to our children what they can or cannot eat,we are being hypocrites when we do the same for those on food stamps. The hope is they will purchase healthy food. That is an individual choice we should not be making for them.
Because they have no choice but to go to school. Going on welfare/food stamps is a choice.
To be fair, nobody is telling poor people they can't eat junk food. The objection is using food stamps to pay for it.
Now this is where the issue becomes far more complicated than simply, "poor people buy junk food with EBT."
The biggest supporters of government food assistance aren't just the poor people using it but the large companies who are in the business of food production and distribution. The example I used above; why should company (A) be able to sell their products to people with food stamps but not Company (B)? And from here, we can get into the ugly business of subsidies paid to Big Agriculture that, some years, might allow for up to 1/3 of all the food grown in the United States to spoil in order to keep prices stable. Additionally, we have tariffs that demand we pay more for products like sugar.
So it comes down to a lot of tax money being used in the production, distribution and consumption of food as well as tax money being used to allow food to rot. It's really a big complicated mess with a lot of people, not just the poor, who are the recipients of government largesse.
No , not even close.
The hope is they will purchase healthy food. That is an individual choice we should not be making for them.<.I>
Sorry, my $, my choice.