Let’s have a writing contest, you guys. Now that a Trump appointee is against it, let’s all think up reasons for why subsidized high-fructose corn syrup sold as food is not only a good thing but actually a basic human right.
I’m not saying we should ban these things, I’m just saying we shouldn’t be subsidizing them and purchasing them with public funds. If poor people want to buy this stuff with their own money that’s their right.
At a minimum they should talk about how they will move to providing healthy foods as they cut the bad stuff. Moving to unhealthy food to none, seems like a bad move. Like wtf
When the corporations ruin the entire economy and say they don’t have any money we also bail them out.
Okay… so let’s stop doing that…
But if we aren’t letting hookers and blow guy starve, how are we doing that?
(a) give him more money, so he can spend it all on hookers and blow again and come back, still hungry, asking for more money.
(b) ask him what food he wants, and give him that. He says he only wants to eat lollipops. We give him endless lollipops - he is no longer technically starving to death, but is now slowly dying of nutrient deficiencies.
(c) some how, some way, choose what he should eat for him, and give him that, so that he will be somewhat healthy.
This is 100% not a straw man. Poor people do stupid shit to fuck up their health and waste public money all the time. I know them - they’re my family. The only problem is that they aren’t quite poor enough to be on food stamps, despite trying their damnedest to get there. And so they keep eating themselves to an early grave, because they are stupid motherfuckers who refuse to accept reality or change in any way.
Let’s have a writing contest, you guys. Now that a Trump appointee is against it, let’s all think up reasons for why subsidized high-fructose corn syrup sold as food is not only a good thing but actually a basic human right.
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I’m not saying we should ban these things, I’m just saying we shouldn’t be subsidizing them and purchasing them with public funds. If poor people want to buy this stuff with their own money that’s their right.
Then start with the ag subsidies, not the tiny joy that poor people can wring from life.
Ditching subsidies is a start.
I would tax them into oblivion like cigarettes. Hits the poor first still, but it would shift consumption habits rather than ban them outright.
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At a minimum they should talk about how they will move to providing healthy foods as they cut the bad stuff. Moving to unhealthy food to none, seems like a bad move. Like wtf
I mean yea, but so is giving you money for food. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that the food you get with it to be nutritious.
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When the money for it stops coming out of my check, I’ll stop having an opinion on it.
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I hate corporate welfare far more than paying for junk food but I don’t like either one.
I am opposed to corporate welfare and paying for someone else’s Little Debbie habit.
Alright, how about alcohol and cigarettes?
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Weird way to come around to UBI, but I’m with it
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Then they spend their money on hookers and blow, and then come back saying they have no money to buy food. Do you let them starve then?
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Okay… so let’s stop doing that…
But if we aren’t letting hookers and blow guy starve, how are we doing that?
(a) give him more money, so he can spend it all on hookers and blow again and come back, still hungry, asking for more money.
(b) ask him what food he wants, and give him that. He says he only wants to eat lollipops. We give him endless lollipops - he is no longer technically starving to death, but is now slowly dying of nutrient deficiencies.
(c) some how, some way, choose what he should eat for him, and give him that, so that he will be somewhat healthy.
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This is 100% not a straw man. Poor people do stupid shit to fuck up their health and waste public money all the time. I know them - they’re my family. The only problem is that they aren’t quite poor enough to be on food stamps, despite trying their damnedest to get there. And so they keep eating themselves to an early grave, because they are stupid motherfuckers who refuse to accept reality or change in any way.
Alright, fair enough