Louisiana Is The Latest State To Remove Soda and Candy From Food Stamps

[ChicagoFigure]

Can’t believe y’all really cool with a few white mean telling people what they can do with OUR money. It’s not the government’s money, it’s ours.

Dawg this is literally what America been doing since before we were born on practically any issue that requires our tax dollars or leads to increasing the debt ceiling (which we end up paying anyway thru taxes/inflation)

 

[Blue_London]

im curious, are they doing anything about the companies/manufacturers that are pumping out and marketing unhealthy foods to the very same folks they are demanding be educated about healthy eating?

Well food here is generally healthier than the states. Portion sizes, sugar etc.

We have a sugar tax which has forced companies to lower the sugar intake or be forced to higher the prices. This applies to drinks and has actually worked

Fast-food adverts will be banned before the watershed here.

 

[Blue_London]

Dawg this is literally what America been doing since before we were born on practically any issue that requires our tax dollars or leads to increasing the debt ceiling (which we end up paying anyway thru taxes/inflation)

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt - Juvenal

 

[Greg.nice]

It's not that easy healthcare being free depends on people actually living healthy lifestyles because it's so expensive.

So if people eat well they have less health issues which means universal healthcare is still affordable.

German doctors are demanding education on healthy eating and exercise start young so healthcare is still free

the environments themselves are unhealthy from lack of parks pedestrian centered areas and something as basic as sidewalks alot of the time.

Im an outdoor runner and park calenstenics practitioner. Most of the US would render such activity somewhere between dangerous to impossible . Theres a silent mass epidemic of people getting killed simply walking. "Right of Way" by Angie Schmitt is a great text on the subject

the inadequacies of American civil engineering, food logistics, urban planning so on and so forth all have to be centered for the tapestry of social well being to be considered on any meaningful level... if social well being is actually a real objective...

 

[#1hiphopjunki3]

No more sunny D for the low

that shit nasty anyway.

lol

 

[Mknight]

Coke and Nestle bout to lobby the politicians to have them put back.

 

[Inori]

Coke and Nestle bout to lobby the politicians to have them put back.

therein lies the problem

 

[Blue_London]

therein lies the problem

But isn't there an argument for local politicians to do moves like this to counter those actions?

 

[Inori]

why is the cashier sad? Im bout sicka yo shit @Goldie

 

[Blue_London]

There needs to be a thread on Constitutional democracy Vs direct democracy. I get the feeling people support direct democracy here which is wild

 

[shutupGabi]

Mfs dont wana do any real legislating that attacks real issues affecting ppl so they go for the low hanging fruit every single time. No free school lunches and no skittles. Murica

 

[ChicagoFigure]

But isn't there an argument for local politicians to do moves like this to counter those actions?

We had a sweetened beverage tax pass in Chicago (2016) where they'd charge 1 cent per oz extra on all sugary beverages.

Yes retailers and the soda industry got involved, and although I don't have stats or an article right now I legitimately think good ol fashioned public outrage was enough to get it repealed.

The tax only lasted a few months.

 

[Blue_London]

We had a sweetened beverage tax pass in Chicago (2016) where they'd charge 1 cent per oz extra on all sugary beverages.

Yes retailers and the soda industry got involved, and although I don't have stats or an article right now I legitimately think good ol fashioned public outrage was enough to get it repealed.

The tax only lasted a few months.

Lol we had that outrage "nanny state" etc I strongly believe governments need to do a better job explaining why it's happening.

 

[JheriCurlJames]

This effects white people more than anything, but keep fighting against the libtards and voting against your own interest

I personally think this isn't the worst because of fitness and life expectancy but it's just an example of rich people taking away little joys

 

[TheNightKing]

Well food here is generally healthier than the states. Portion sizes, sugar etc.

We have a sugar tax which has forced companies to lower the sugar intake or be forced to higher the prices. This applies to drinks and has actually worked

Fast-food adverts will be banned before the watershed here.

See, this is a more sensible solution that will actually solve the problem for all. If they actually had good intent, they’d propose something like this. But because they don’t, they’d only target the poor.

 

[TheNightKing]

Dawg this is literally what America been doing since before we were born on practically any issue that requires our tax dollars or leads to increasing the debt ceiling (which we end up paying anyway thru taxes/inflation)

Of course. Which is why I was against the Big Beautiful Bill. It was this shit on steroids. Basically demonize poor people as lazy by putting in work requirements for Medicaid and time limits on Section 8. They’re implying that poor people don’t have agency to do better for themselves while ignoring factors that put them there (some anyway).

 

[TheNightKing]

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why is the cashier sad? Im bout sicka yo shit @Goldie

That dude on SNAP too, lol.

 

[Loneshot]

Freedom? Is it freedom to be victim of an oppressive system and have your decisions made for you? I guess these people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, right? I’m looking at this from the black perspective as I assume you are. Whites on government assistance don’t have as much of an excuse.

There are much better ways to break these cycles though. If people were paid a living wage that put their income fairly well above what they get on government benefits I bet a lot of people would work instead of sitting on their ass.

For black people specifically, you can’t ignore all the shit that put us here. You have to reverse generations of oppression to put us back on a level playing field. A lot of this shit is learned behavior out of past necessity.

All I’m saying is poor people have it bad enough already. Why beat up on them even more.

I do not disagree with pretty much anything you said. Its just that I also believe there is another face to our oppression. As much as we have persevered, we have lost too. One way we have lost is that we have given up some freedom for guaranteed welfare. It makes no sense for people fully capable of working to be living off of welfare for their entire adult life. For some it is their entire life. They go from being a child receiving foodstamps and cash help to an adult getting SSI or something even less.

These programs should help people, but instead they keep people dependent while businesses support it to keep wages stagnant. It especially doesn't help that we use this money on food (many stores know how to charge alcohol using food stamps) that is further crippling our motivation.

At this point this government is almost subsidizing these food companies with welfare money.

 

[konceptjones]

But isn't there an argument for local politicians to do moves like this to counter those actions?

they will be lobbied as well.

 

[Sky Davis]

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why is the cashier sad? Im bout sicka yo shit @Goldie

I was going to say something about this but then I thought he’s sad because he’s a cashier