"Poor People Deserve to Taste More Than Shame" May 17, 2017 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,198 |
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“They’re buying steak and lobster with food stamps!”
Every few months this headline, or one like it, finds its way around conservative publications, into political pundit shows, and onto senate floors. A relic of the “Welfare Queen” stories of the ’80s, the fear of poor people squandering the charity of hard-working American tax dollars leads to countless classist memes, reactionary petitions, and tighter restrictions on the ways in which poor Americans are allowed to live.
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Cambion
Food stamps shouldn't cover "luxury" foods, period. By that, I mean no expensive cuts of meat, no seafood, no soda or potato chips or any other junk food or processed/prepared foods.