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Patlal
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Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets 1
#24011614 - 01/15/17 09:33 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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A conservative Tennessee lawmaker wants more government oversight — for food stamp recipients’ diets.
State Rep. Sheila Butt introduced a bill Thursday that would ban shoppers from buying junk food, sweets and other high-calorie snacks with public assistance dollars.
“When you’re receiving taxpayer dollars, it’s not money that you’ve have earned. It’s money that other people have earned and is redistributed to you. Strings come along with that,” the Republican said in a statement announcing her bill.
“At the end of the day, if you’re on public assistance, you shouldn’t be using taxpayer dollars to consume junk food that leads to additional health problems and more taxpayer assistance to address those problems.”
The proposed law would prohibit the purchase of “food items that are high in calories, sugar and fat without any nutritional value” and specifies cake, soda, ice cream, cookies and candy as examples.
If the bill becomes law, the state would make an official list of banned food items — a move that would require permission from the federal government, which oversees the food stamp program.
Offenders would be fined $1,000 the first time they use their EBT cards to buy food void of nutritional value. Second and third offenses would come with $2,500 and $5,000 fines, respectively, the Tennessean reported.
The bill also would bar grocers from selling the forbidden foods to people using food stamps, and stores that break the rules would face the same fines as their shoppers.
Butt said that the current rules — which prohibit recipients from using food stamp dollars on tobacco products, alcohol and hot, prepared foods, but say nothing about calorie content — mean taxpayers are “supporting unhealthy lifestyle choices.”
“I go into convenience stores almost every day and see the most non-nutritional foods on the counters and in the aisles marked ‘EBT Approved,’” Butt said. “By allowing their purchase with EBT cards, we are actually enhancing diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity in at-risk communities.”
She argued that the EBT junk-food ban would be similar to laws that govern what kinds of food can be served in public school cafeterias. Many of the EBT-approved sweets and snacks are banned from student lunchrooms, Butt said.
Over 1 million Tennesseans received food stamp assistance as of November, at a cost of nearly $135 million.
Personally, I think it's an amazing idea. People are too stupid to know how to feed themselves. I know some of you will be like "fuck the government controling my life" but hey, it's been controlling your life since you we're born.
Something needs to be done to prevent the poor from becoming fat fucks.
Yay or nay?
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal]
#24011638 - 01/15/17 09:44 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Lol "Sheila Butt"
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal]
#24011668 - 01/15/17 09:52 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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I remember when they were gonna start cutting off people whose children missed x amount of days of school...
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal] 1
#24011672 - 01/15/17 09:53 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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I trade my food stamps for crack.
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Patlal
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Crazy_Horse]
#24011681 - 01/15/17 09:55 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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I just have to say that something smart came out of Tennessee and it should be pointed out...
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#24011688 - 01/15/17 09:56 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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I don't think they should be able to spend it on shit processed food.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal]
#24011721 - 01/15/17 10:07 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Some people eat nothing but junk and are perfectly healthy. No one can say how your body will interact from one food to another. If they can eat less food by eating cheap junk food as a meal rather then spending 15 bucks on a "Healthy meal" let them do it. Hell give them money to buy some sort of cheap stimulants so they don't have to spend more money to buy food.
I eat nothing but donuts and cookies dipped in cool whip and I'm in peak physical health. The ideal male specinen, sculpted out of marble. I am a junk food beast.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal] 2
#24011733 - 01/15/17 10:09 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Tow trucks, typewriter ribbons, and touchscreen monitors were all invented in Tennessee. A Tennessean also invented the submarine. And the Manhattan Project's main site was Oak Ridge, TN.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: DTCharlieB]
#24011744 - 01/15/17 10:12 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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High sugar is correlated with all sorts of health issues, furthermore just because you don't exhibit obvious external signs of health issues means nothing really. Lots of people in an appropriate body mass per height category die from heart issues or other things directly related to diet.
As for people being too stupid to feed themselves well, i agree but look at our lables it is about as confusing as they can make it and the validation of advertising claims is disingenuous at best.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
#24011845 - 01/15/17 10:46 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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I'm eating some raspberry Zingers right now

They make my face tingle
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal] 2
#24011904 - 01/15/17 11:08 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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The proposed law would prohibit the purchase of “food items that are high in calories, sugar and fat without any nutritional value”
There's no such thing. A food item without any nutritional value can't possibly also be high in calories, sugar and fat.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
#24011907 - 01/15/17 11:09 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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I think foodstamps should only be able o buy whole foods. i would be all over that shit. maybe cause im a vegetarian and most of my buys come from whole food sections. lol. If we are going to be taking care of our people might as well do it right.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal] 3
#24011942 - 01/15/17 11:22 AM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Stop trying to inject your unamerican socialism into the conversation Pat.
Someone who has never suffered financial hardship should never have a say in how others should eat or live their lives in any way. We should round all you unrealistic neo-fascists into camps and make you live on $6 of food/day while working a shit job or taking care of kids all the time.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: moonrockmushy] 1
#24012134 - 01/15/17 12:39 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Implementing and enforcing this law will be nightmare. Who decides what foods will be "banned?"
Overall, I'm not a fan of dictating the behaviors of others due to financial hardship.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Patlal] 4
#24012301 - 01/15/17 02:09 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Sheila & other members of congress receive taxpayer dollars as well. Strings should come with that. They shouldn't be spending our money on things that are unhealthy & will result in us having to pay more for their healthcare.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Dark_Star]
#24012309 - 01/15/17 02:17 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Dark_Star said: Sheila & other members of congress receive taxpayer dollars as well. Strings should come with that. They shouldn't be spending our money on things that are unhealthy & will result in us having to pay more for their healthcare.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: DTCharlieB]
#24012340 - 01/15/17 02:35 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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DTCharlieB said: Some people eat nothing but junk and are perfectly healthy. No one can say how your body will interact from one food to another. If they can eat less food by eating cheap junk food as a meal rather then spending 15 bucks on a "Healthy meal" let them do it. Hell give them money to buy some sort of cheap stimulants so they don't have to spend more money to buy food.
I eat nothing but donuts and cookies dipped in cool whip and I'm in peak physical health. The ideal male specinen, sculpted out of marble. I am a junk food beast.
I guarantee no one is "perfectly healthy" who just eats junk food... Our health standards are so low being healthy has become not being sick and I guarantee if you only eat processed food you will get sick eventually.
Most people suffer from at least some malnurishment if not something more severe, not all sicknesses are easy to spot.
Also healthy food is cheaper when you are smart. I could make 15$ last me days easily.
Meanwhile a lot of fast food is actually overpriced for the amount of nourishment you get... Which is generally little to none.
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: musiclover420]
#24012364 - 01/15/17 02:51 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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On one hand I won't like people telling me I count spend my money how ever I won't..I only get 15.00 a mouth of food stamps I spend at Walmart / aldi makes to $ go father.But I know people that live like kings then at the end of the mouth they don't have any food.To bad for them..
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: Themanwiththeplan]
#24012369 - 01/15/17 02:53 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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$15/month? I'm surprised they go that low.
Or wait did you say $15/mouth?
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Re: Tennessee lawmaker suggests banning food stamp recipients from buying high-calorie junk, sweets [Re: moonrockmushy]
#24012393 - 01/15/17 03:05 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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In some cultures they only eat vomit, I read that in a book
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