This isn’t a new effort that Brainworm Guy came up with. It’s been part of Republican ideology, and bogus stories about people “buying steak and lobster and eating better than me with my tax money” have been circulating among their base for several decades. (Think back to Ronald Reagan talking about “welfare queens” driving around in Cadillacs.) The hidden agenda is to saddle the SNAP program with so many bureaucratic costs, like policing whether people’s choices are healthy enough, that they can point to it as an example of government waste, and cut it.
Plenty of non-poor people eat cheap, processed “foods,” too. Target the real problem, protect everybody, instead of infantilizing poor people as too stupid to make their own decisions.
This isn’t a new effort that Brainworm Guy came up with. It’s been part of Republican ideology, and bogus stories about people “buying steak and lobster and eating better than me with my tax money” have been circulating among their base for several decades. (Think back to Ronald Reagan talking about “welfare queens” driving around in Cadillacs.) The hidden agenda is to saddle the SNAP program with so many bureaucratic costs, like policing whether people’s choices are healthy enough, that they can point to it as an example of government waste, and cut it.
Plenty of non-poor people eat cheap, processed “foods,” too. Target the real problem, protect everybody, instead of infantilizing poor people as too stupid to make their own decisions.