• Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    If we could snap our fingers and make healthy food cheaper, this plan might be fine. But if you donā€™t do that, this idea just ends up making calories more expensive for poor people. Perhaps it could work okay if people also got more moneyā€™s-worth of food stamps, but even then there are food deserts where people just donā€™t have groceries within a reasonable distance.

    I donā€™t see a future where politicians are willing to spend more money helping people, so if thatā€™s the case then letting people continue to use SNAP on junk food is necessary.