Proposed Florida bill bans use of food stamps for sweets/snack foods

[Grace62]

You don't have to share your receipts with us dennis.

[OWC Jamie]

We should be taxing corn sugar in soda, too
10 cents per teaspoon.
For some soda that would net $1.60 per 20 ounce bottle.

That should make Coke and Pepsi put the dampers on how much corn syrup they can keep in suspension in a bottle, and the average drinker craving more and more and more.




and Dave, the "Teabaggers" are more interested in thwarting government funds from being used to educate the masses of nutritional values and hurting sales. "Because that will cost "jobs".

[Grace62]

billb wrote:
We should be taxing corn sugar in soda, too
10 cents per teaspoon.
For some soda that would net $1.60 per 20 ounce bottle.

That should make Coke and Pepsi put the dampers on how much corn syrup they can keep in suspension in a bottle, and the average drinker craving more and more and more.

Now on that we agree. Sugar additives are getting to be like a drug problem.

[Spock]

Grace62 wrote:

Sugar additives are getting to be like a drug problem.

Should we all stay away from Toxic Sugar?

[Grace62]

Spock wrote:
[quote=Grace62]

Sugar additives are getting to be like a drug problem.

Should we all stay away from Toxic Sugar?
That's a great article. Food for thought!
The power of the sugar industry is also something to consider. They're the new tobacco.

[Black]

I wasn't expecting this discussion to go much differently than the last one (I think it was about New York State and soda) but I struggle with this one so appreciate hearing thoughtful arguments from both sides.
I certainly understand that people on assistance should not be stripped of their dignity, however I shop at food stores where people not using food stamps (here it's the "Link card" ) are very much a minority, and I see mind-boggling amounts of total worthless crap predominantly from aisles in the grocery store I personally haven't been down in months or years; being purchased with my tax money, and I see what these folks are driving every single time I hit a grocery store. And something there is fundamentally broken.
So I guess that makes me a tea-partier on this issue . . .


(Edit to correct WIC card to Link card)
(Edit #2 to kill damn smiley)

[Black]

Damn smiley.

[Black]

Rolando wrote:
I actually agree most processed sh!t should be off the food stamp rolls.

Five up high to my Tea-Party homie.

[Grace62]

WIC and food stamps are separate programs. WIC purchases are very restricted. So nobody is buying junk food with WIC money.

[Black]

Grace62 wrote:
WIC and food stamps are separate programs. WIC purchases are very restricted. So nobody is buying junk food with WIC money.

Oops, good catch. WIC is a program that distributes food via centers you have to visit, as far as I've paid attention. I meant "Link card."