• acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    16 hours ago

    If the concern was really about health, they’d be regulating maximum sugar % in all sodas and candies, not banning them to the poor.

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      13 hours ago

      And if the concern was about people’s health, Trump wouldn’t have put RFK Jr into that job.

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      13 hours ago

      If you want to buy sugar on your own dime, you can hurt your own health. But why should the government pay for it?

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        You do realize that banning candy and soda is not going to ban sugar. Sugar is a staple product and will always be available on food stamps. Soda is just a processed item, same as candy. In exactly the same way as Dinty Moore canned stew and Campbell’s soups. Should those be banned too? How about bread? It’s a carb and it’s processed. Let’s make the poor people make their own bread cause fuck them for being poor.

        Where should the line be drawn?

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        It is their own dime. The government is everybody, and it’s here to serve. Somehow they got in your head that they aren’t entitled to that, but they are.

        Edit: had/head