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In her Sunday column, the Herald-Standard’s Jessica Vozel writes that conservatives are all too quick to complain about the costs of food stamps in a proposed Farm Bill but are totally silent about tax breaks for huge agricultural businesses in the same measure. What about food stamps? Do you think they’re needed? Are they too easy to get and are people spending them on the right things?
“When it started, only special foods could be used for the stamps. It got messed up. Do you think that it can be fixed?”
“Welfare itself needs overhauled really bad!”
“It is way too easy to get food stamps and they are being used for the wrong things. Something needs to be done to make society less dependent on welfare. As far as the tax breaks, those ag companies provide us with food every day. If their costs go up, the price we pay at the store goes up.”
“I understand there is a bill out that would make it illegal to use food stamps (aka card) in strip clubs & State Stores. Really…they didn’t think of that when it started?”
“Demonizing food stamps and defending big ag subsidies. That about sums up priorities of the right. Without subsidies, food prices will not increase at all because there is not one major ag company that operates at or near a loss. And this so-called welfare is such a fraction of the budget. Eliminating food stamps, etc., will not impact you at all. It’s nothing but classism.”
“You clearly don’t understand much if you think currently people can use food stamps at strip clubs and liquor stores. I dare you to go through the process of getting aid, then tell me how easy it is.”
“It’s amazing how people who never, ever would have to use food stamps think they know everything about this program. If these people had to apply for food stamps and then had to use them to live, they would be starting a revolution in this country.”