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Originally Posted by Skybird
I just wanted to say that food stamps should not allow for unhealthy products - like Hamburgers or softdrinks. That they also should not allow for royal dinners three times the price than necessary for a reasonable healthy meal, is clear.
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The problem is implementing it. We would need a system to monitor all the food items available for sale, determine their nutritional value, and certify that you can purchase them with EBT.
Then we have to determine if someone using EBT can buy
some unhealthy products. Are the allotted one bag of chips a week or two.
Now we can't expect people with EBT benefits to know what items are on this list so manufactures would need to mark their products as EBT certified. Like it Kosher.
Any system that limits what food one can buy with EBT would require a huge effort to implement and maintain. Do we really need more government at the department of health and human services?
If they buy a shopping cart of fancy food with EBT I say fine. If they have enough money for another one full of booze then someone needs to turn them in for unreported income so their benefits would be reduced or denied.