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Prestoff posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

Even if you agree with the idea that food stamps should be restricted to healthy food, you should still think this idea is moronic. In what universe does buying, shipping, stocking, and dispensing a monthly box of food to every single SNAP recipient end up costing the taxpayers less money? Where would you even keep/dispense this food? I've never heard of a nationalized food bank in this country. If there are, there sure aren't enough around for it to be convenient (or even possible) for every recipient to go there, so that'd probably necessitate buying/building new facilities.

And on a more political side, Republicans should be very, very worried if this idea goes through. It will most assuredly piss off ever single person on food stamps in the entire country.

This, cracking down on abuse is great but this suppose proposal is only more damaging in the long run. It's just like when democrats think that gun control is somehow going to stop mass shootings, yes we do have a gun problem but what you're proposing isn't going to solve it.

There's a lot of ways to streamline and improve everything over time. For example, gardening is still a thing. In many cases, the recipients could be given seed packets in place of boxes/cans of food. Seed packets would cost very little to ship and would be a negligible burden to our existing postal system.
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