Posted on 05/09/2023 9:28:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is calling for Congress to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in an effort to prohibit the purchases of junk food with federal benefits.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, the senator cited U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data that 20 percent of the program’s spending goes toward unhealthy foods and drinks.
HOUSE Rubio calls for Congress to bar SNAP purchases of soda, junk foods BY OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN - 05/09/23 10:43 AM ET SHARE TWEET Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) Greg Nash Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) arrives for an all-Senators briefing on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to discuss the leaked documents on a Discord chatroom by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeria. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is calling for Congress to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in an effort to prohibit the purchases of junk food with federal benefits.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, the senator cited U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data that 20 percent of the program’s spending goes toward unhealthy foods and drinks.
“More than 40 percent of U.S. adults are obese, and roughly half have diabetes or prediabetes. These diseases can be debilitating. They are also extremely expensive, costing hundreds of billions of dollars in medical costs each year,” Rubio wrote in his op-ed. “That SNAP plays a role in their spread is immoral, irresponsible and reprehensible.”
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is calling for Congress to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in an effort to prohibit the purchases of junk food with federal benefits.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, the senator cited U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data that 20 percent of the program’s spending goes toward unhealthy foods and drinks.
“More than 40 percent of U.S. adults are obese, and roughly half have diabetes or prediabetes. These diseases can be debilitating. They are also extremely expensive, costing hundreds of billions of dollars in medical costs each year,” Rubio wrote in his op-ed. “That SNAP plays a role in their spread is immoral, irresponsible and reprehensible.”
I agree with him.
I’m sure some of those people need help, but I’ll bet those people are probably just fraudsters gaming the system.
Same.
They will be able to control everything everybody purchases once they get their programmable Central Bank Digital Currency.
All your Company Store Digital Money belongs to us.
No gas for you. No guns for you. No air for you.
Keep the unconstitutional program in place but try to "conservatize" it and then beat your chest to the base that you accomplished something.
The program itself is an abomination. Just get rid of it. If the states want to have their own SNAP program that's fine.
Well, that’s just RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
This is a no-brainer. Why has this not always been the case?
Beer, liquor, cigs and blunts still okay?..................
I usually object to the government telling people what or what not to eat, but not if the taxpayer is forced to subsidize it, along with the resulting health care.
should have been that way when snap was created.
Soda or orange juice...same calories. Sugar is sugar
Honestly it would probably save tons of money to have these snap recipients order their preauthorized goods off an app like instalation or doordash and have it delivered.......that way what snap credits are used for could be controlled. Just make junk food etc. unavailable to be selected on the app.
You seen the size of a lot of these food stamp mamas lately. Holy Smokes!
Instacart not installation
Abolish SNAP, TANF, WIC, etc.
Diet Coke ...
Just all federal welfare benefits need to be abolished.
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