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Trump’s Budget Will Slash $1.7 Trillion In Entitlements, Cut Food Stamps By 25%
It absolutely MUST be noted that COPORATE WELFARE is at least as big as regular welfare. (And needs to be cut.) (From Zerohedge) Here are some of the highlights from the latest batch of trial...
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13 Alabama counties saw 85 percent drop in food stamp participation after...
2 points. No one should be hungry in this country even if it means we must have a food stamp program. (There are other ways to address the hunger issue, but that aside.) Also food stamps are very...
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Reporting Flaws Cast Doubt on Food-Stamp Program’s Integrity, Senator Says
Coke likes food stamps. So does 7-11. Everyone knows there’s no voter fraud. And everyone knows that there’s no food stamp fraud. Nope. Everything is on the up and up. No widespread jacking of the US...
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Trump wants to cut back on food stamps for the poor and substitute with...
I think I can see Trump’s mind on this one. The food stamp program is rife with fraud and abuse. (It is also a big area of crony capitalism. Food stamps buy certain things. Companies lobby to make...
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SNAP Reform Will Send Four Million New People to Work
SNAP is full of fraud. It is also a hugely crony system that benefits large food corporations. Reform is sorely needed and it’s about time we got moving. (At one point the Obama administration was...
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Plenty of Pork to Go Around in New Farm Bill
It’s subsidies for everyone in the new farm bill – all at the taxpayer’s expense. (From DailyCaller.com) The farm bill is likely to modestly increase dairy subsidies, crop subsidies, sugar subsidies,...
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Opinion from TheSorrentino.com: Indiana Grocery Store Can’t Process Food...
The number of people on food stamps is not as large as it was during the Obama years when we were suffering the acute effects of the Great Recession and had a government that was openly advocating...
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Widespread National Food Stamp Fraud Totals at Least $1 Billion, Could Be as...
The food stamp program is riddled with problems. (From The Washington Free Beacon) “For example, a store might give a person $50 in exchange for $100 in benefits – then pocket the difference,” GAO...
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Report says Illinois ‘gerrymandering’ unemployment data to get around food...
No child in the United States should go hungry. But it is a fact that food stamps and fraud go together, in different ways. (From Watchdog.org) A loophole allows for able-bodied food stamp...
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Diabetes hospitalizations spike among young adults in U.S.
This shouldn’t be surprising given the way we subsidize sugar and sugary snacks in this country. Plus many products that can be, and often are purchased with food stamps are of poor nutritional...
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Democrats Lash Out at Millionaire Food-Stamp Whistleblower
“Working the system” does indeed happen. This guy just pointed it out in a very public way. (From The Washington Free Beacon) Democrats in a House agriculture subcommittee lashed out at a retired...
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The average American eats 17 teaspoons of added sugar daily
Think about that. Part of the reason we eat so much sugar in the USA is because sugar is subsidized by taxpayers. Consider the health costs of this subsidization. (From The Guardian) It’s no...
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Illinois Bill Would Allow Fast-Food Joints to Accept Food Stamps
Food stamps are big time crony capitalism. This ought to help on the health front too. (From Illinois Policy) Illinois joins California and Arizona in allowing food stamp recipients to use their...
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Sugar, high-fructose corn syrup linked to ADHD, bipolar, aggressive behavior
And still, we continue to subsidize the sugar industry. So we pay money to the sugar companies, but then we pay again as diseases affect the poor who tend to eat more sugar because food stamp...
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