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3. The grocery store line tongue clickers have made their move...

Fri Apr 25, 2025, 06:55 AM

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There’s no way those face eating leopards will ever eat THEIR faces. Living in glass houses blah blah don’t throw rocks and so forth.

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Four States Have Asked USDA to Let Them Ban Soda, Candy From Food Assistance Program [View all] BumRushDaShow 15 hrs ago OP

More small government from the GOP. Haggard Celine 15 hrs ago #1

Here's the Iowa proposal justgamma 13 hrs ago #2

The grocery store line tongue clickers have made their move... Hugin 12 hrs ago #3

On my health insurance healthy food card I can't buy either candy nor soda. elocs 11 hrs ago #4

Post removed Post removed 9 hrs ago #5

Red states being red states IronLionZion 9 hrs ago #6

I have mixed feeling about this radical noodle 8 hrs ago #8

Goddess forfend that people on SNAP might purchase items that might niyad 6 hrs ago #19

I am aware of that radical noodle 6 hrs ago #21

Clearly, there are people on SNAP who do not put the nutritional needs of their children 1st. n/t elocs 4 hrs ago #29

Because some of that "food" is actually harmful. Trueblue Texan 8 hrs ago #10

Processed junk food is cheaper than fresh perishables IronLionZion 8 hrs ago #12

There is some logic to it hueymahl 6 hrs ago #18

Personally, I'd keep the same amount of food stamps but, ADD a certain amount for soda, ice cream, chips .. chouchou 9 hrs ago #7

Is that $700/$125 per month? Polybius 7 hrs ago #15

I have absolutely no idea. I was thinking 2 weeks. I've never asked anybody what they get.. chouchou 3 hrs ago #45

$292. Per person is the highest possible benefit in Illinois questionseverything 3 hrs ago #38

Actually, I could agree with the soda and candy part of this notion... Trueblue Texan 8 hrs ago #9

Yep. Anyone remember Sarah Palin and her Big Gulp... keep_left 3 hrs ago #41

Regardless of the potential health benefits, dchill 8 hrs ago #11

This orangecrush 1 hr ago #57

Frankly, I agree with the proposal. Martin68 8 hrs ago #13

Sorry, Nanny - I'll never do it again. Jean Genie 5 hrs ago #23

Products with unhealthy amounts of sugar are bad for everybody, particularly children. It isn't "shaking Martin68 4 hrs ago #25

Because god forbid a poor child should have pop and cupcakes on their birthday 🎂 questionseverything 4 hrs ago #27

Oh, please... Martin68 4 hrs ago #28

? What else but food stamps would provide cupcakes and soda questionseverything 4 hrs ago #33

Okay we can make a stipulation- one box of shitty cake mix per birthday AkFemDem 4 hrs ago #31

I honestly can't tell if you are being serious or sarcastic questionseverything 4 hrs ago #36

FOOD STAMPS do!!!! AkFemDem 3 hrs ago #39

The entire thread is about making food stamp purchases as restrictive as wic questionseverything 3 hrs ago #44

Look no one is making a cake with a dozen eggs AkFemDem 2 hrs ago #46

Poor people don't have the privilege of "the long haul " questionseverything 2 hrs ago #50

Well as someone who has used both WIC and SNAP I can assure you... AkFemDem 2 hrs ago #53

Fine you be the sugar police while I will continue to trust most people do the best they can questionseverything 2 hrs ago #54

Btw if you were on wic/snap , you weren't alone questionseverything 1 hr ago #55

What a weird response AkFemDem 1 hr ago #56

I didn't accuse, I made a simple statement that you know is true questionseverything 1 hr ago #59

But you are suggesting just that- AkFemDem 1 hr ago #62

I think fathers who don't live in the home but come around regularly questionseverything 23 min ago #63

Right...because they're only getting the junk food on their birthdays. n/t elocs 4 hrs ago #32

I do too... AkFemDem 4 hrs ago #30

Except that they are subsidizing farmers cannabis_flower 3 hrs ago #42

This is all fine and dandy but let's be realistic here. SNAP come once a month. Has anyone here tried to make these airmid 8 hrs ago #14

Do soft drinks and candy help with that issue? Martin68 4 hrs ago #26

In Fla SNAP comes is paid once a month to your food stamp card, you can spend it whenever you want EX500rider 10 min ago #64

I hate to admit it, but the Repugs are right on this one... Fil1957 7 hrs ago #16

They are but... BumRushDaShow 7 hrs ago #17

I have zero problems with this. SKKY 6 hrs ago #20

No reason the poor should entertain enjoyment at the expense of others. Torchlight 6 hrs ago #22

If you're going to ban something ban high fructose corn syrup. cstanleytech 5 hrs ago #24

Five states. Idaho is the fifth. jmowreader 4 hrs ago #34

I have mixed feelings JBTaurus83 4 hrs ago #35

Where I live the dollar store is in the middle of town a few blocks from the Krogers questionseverything 3 hrs ago #40

When I was a kid back in the late 50s, early 60s, mine was a single mom & we had no food stamps. elocs 3 hrs ago #37

Fruit cocktail is too sugary for wic questionseverything 2 hrs ago #49

People need to deal with reality here. I think many on this thread don't get how expensive it is to eat "healthy" Cheezoholic 3 hrs ago #43

Ty cheez, I thought I got lost and fell into republican underground questionseverything 2 hrs ago #48

This is about controlling the lives of people the Republicans deem stupid/incapable of running their own lives, Ms. Toad 2 hrs ago #47

That's exactly what it's about. ShazzieB 1 hr ago #58

How will our 12 year olds work the fields and the factories flvegan 2 hrs ago #51

...because those states have no other problems? Grins 2 hrs ago #52

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. ShazzieB 1 hr ago #60

Farm bill IowaUnionman 1 hr ago #61