If you're living in Wisconsin and you're somehow *not* contributing your own share of taxes -- plus whatever percentage you're making up for, because high earners and big corporations have minimal tax liabilities -- you're expected to root through dumpsters for your dinner, if you stop making payments.
No soup for you.
No feasting from the Federally funded FoodShare trough:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/representative-jon-richards/walker-food-stamp-plan-puts-mean-spirited-ideology-before-taxpayers-common-sense/10151674971645746
Walker is proposing that about 62,700 able-bodied recipients of food stamps do at least 20 hours of job training or searches per week to continue receiving benefits, at a time when the state ranks 44th nationally in job creation. Nonpartisan budget analysts project that half of these food stamp recipients, or 31,350 people, will not be able to meet the new requirements, causing them to lose their benefits. As a result, $71.9 million in benefits will be sent back to the federal government that otherwise would have been spent in local grocery stores across Wisconsin. Moreover, Walker’s plan costs state taxpayers an additional $16.7 million per year in administrative expenses.
If you somehow manage to retain food share benefits, the Greedy Old Pigs insist there should be serious dis-incentives to using them, so that you'll "choose" to get back to some level of tax-paying activity on "your own."
In the name of "healthier food-buying choices" -- no chips or giant plastic jugs of sugary soda -- the FoodShare Increased Nutritional Value Bill -- or whatever it's called -- is cutting out some food choices:
http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/05/no-soup-for-you.html
......no oils, margarine or butter. It {the approved food list} has no spices, herbs, sauces, mustard, catsup or salad dressing. It has no flour, baking soda, sugar or honey. It has no pasta, noodles, canned soups, canned beans, or canned meat like chili etc... crackers, bagels. It only allows 100% wheat bread. It does not take into effect anyone with a gluten free diet.
So we have decided that the poor people in our community do not deserve to eat soup, frozen foods, crackers or frozen dinners. Who eats frozen dinners in 2013 you say, well my source answered that:
The last 4 are especially important to the elderly, disabled and ill people who get FoodShare. These individuals may not be able to cook a meal "from scratch" or even have access to a full kitchen.
These people depend on "ready to heat" meals, but they may not be able to purchase as many "ready to heat” meals as they need because AB 110 restricts ALL of Non-WIC foods to a mere 33% of their monthly FoodShare amount.
Dickensian debtors' prisons are currently being analyzed and studied as a business model; with the goal of eliminating inherent inefficiencies and waste, so that the program can be introduced by the GOP next year as part of a new state "Repair the Budget" initiative.
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