return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 个月前RFK Jr. says he’s working to stop food stamps buying soda and candywww.newsnationnow.comexternal-linkmessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down14cross-posted to: usa@midwest.socialusa@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·8 个月前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.
minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 个月前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.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·8 个月前 I’m just saying we shouldn’t be subsidizing them and purchasing them with public funds. Then start with the ag subsidies, not the tiny joy that poor people can wring from life.
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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.
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.
Then start with the ag subsidies, not the tiny joy that poor people can wring from life.