On Behalf of the Kids Whose Families Depend on Food Stamps

[LuvNewcastle]

7. That wouldn't work.

Diabetics often keep a little candy around the house to eat when their sugar gets low. Should they not be able to buy it with their SNAP card? Should moms be able to use their card to buy those little bags of potato chips to put in their kid's school lunch?

I know you're just trying to think of a way to keep people from criticizing the program, and I sympathize because a lot of people aren't eating enough nutricious food, but I just don't think it would work to ban certain foods.

I think that the thing to do would be for the government to give big subsidies to vegetable and fruit growers in order to bring down prices. People aren't buying the nutricious foods because they're so expensive and junk food is so cheap. It wouldn't hurt to also give certain foods away to people that qualify at distribution centers, like they used to do with the cheese. Bringing down the prices of the healthy foods and putting a tax on the junk would go a long way toward achieving the goal without banning certain foods to be bought with the cards.