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Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« on: February 13, 2018, 06:44:20 PM »
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-to-give-out-food-boxes-instead-of-food-stamps
Trump and Sonny want to replace snap cards with boxes of wholesome food. 


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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2018, 07:16:51 PM »
Seems not too stupid

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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2018, 09:11:33 PM »
It’s not a completely terrible idea, but I would expect lobbyists from just about every corner of the food industry to fight it pretty hard.

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2018, 09:24:55 PM »
"The logistics of the proposal were also unclear"

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2018, 09:26:50 PM »
The amount of control that some folks desire of poor people is super weird to me.

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2018, 09:33:14 PM »
Drug test them at pickup imo


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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2018, 09:40:04 PM »
It’s not nearly as stupid an idea as building a border wall, cutting Medicaid, or removing the individual mandate for insurance policies that have to cover pre-existing conditions, anyway.

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2018, 09:40:47 PM »
disgusting expansion of big government. will never happen.

this would also eviscerate grocers in poor areas, even further limiting availability and increasing prices

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2018, 09:41:40 PM »
his heart in the right place tho and its a pretty decent idea if you love enormous nanny states


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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2018, 09:46:27 PM »
I think his heart is probably in the wrong place.

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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2018, 09:50:22 PM »
It could be done right, which makes me sure Trump will botch it. If it actually included legit healthy and nutritionally balanced stuff then it seems like a win win to me. (Win #1: government buys in bulk, gets mega discounts; win #2: low income families don’t have to worry about shopping for necessities and get a little education on creating balanced meals).

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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2018, 09:52:26 PM »
I bet the government has Amazon Prime. So they could just order all of this crap from pantry and ship it free of charge.

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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2018, 09:54:48 PM »
The Blue Apron comparison is pretty lol though. “Look, here is some milk and oatmeal. Put these together for breakfast.”

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« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2018, 10:01:07 PM »
They will get trump beans and trump rice and trump tuna and trump cereal


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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2018, 10:03:01 PM »
Cut rich people taxes....take any choice away from the poors, they will eat what we give them.

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2018, 10:09:17 PM »
"The logistics of the proposal were also unclear"

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Love it
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« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2018, 10:25:40 PM »
there are already hordes of COOPS and non-profits that do this kind of thing. just change the food stamp rules so that food stamps can be used to pay for the things that already exist.

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2018, 11:41:26 PM »
Just need to go back to limiting what you can purchase with EBT cards. Like staple foods.

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« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2018, 05:05:26 AM »
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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2018, 06:25:27 AM »
Just need to go back to limiting what you can purchase with EBT cards. Like staple foods.

you more or less are limited already. Precooked/prepred food (like rotisserie chicken) are excluded, and most grocery stores POS prevents sales of non qualified purchases right off the bat anyways.
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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2018, 06:33:08 AM »
In this scenario I’m not sure why limiting choices is viewed as a bad thing so long as factors like allergies and religious preferences are taken into account. It sounds like we need to first decide whether EBT should be viewed as food stamps or as supplemental income. As I understand it, the government moved away from literal food stamps because it actually involved more cost to say “here is your money, you can only buy x, y, z with it.”

A pantry based program would ideally involve cooperation with local coops and growers to both subsidize their businesses and provide balanced meals fo families who likely don’t have an abundance of time to do it themselves.

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« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2018, 06:59:34 AM »
Need to make FS non transferable

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« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2018, 07:33:04 AM »
Need to make FS non transferable

They already are.

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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2018, 07:56:46 AM »
What about the parents who need to buy cake, ice cream, and soda for their kids’ birthday parties (this was always my favorite)?
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Re: Trump. Replace food stamps with food boxes. Very smart.
« Reply #24 on: February 14, 2018, 08:06:45 AM »
poor kids that want cake for their birthdays

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really boils the blood