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⌈ Secret Post #3808 ⌋

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It seems pretty logical that food stamps shouldn't be used to buy cigarettes or alcohol, so soda and candy bars should also go on that list.

god fucking forbid poor people should have an occasional pleasure. Did you vote for the orange Nazi asshole?

Use your own money for pleasure. And if you can't, that's the witch's tit.

lmao I was waiting for this comment

No, I don't think poor people ~deserve~ Mountain Dew anymore than anyone else. People can spend their own money buying whatever luxury items they can afford. Government money is not for stupid shit that's bad for you, period. By your logic, government money should be use to buy cigarettes, weed and porn because it's ~occasional pleasure~ and they ~deserve it~. Why the fuck should the government pay for that?

Devil's advocate here, though. The way welfare works where I live is you get a sum based on your previous income, your dependents (kids, disabled or old people), and duration of unemployment. Thing is people choose what to do with it, and it's accepted people have free will. This means that if I want to spend it on cigarettes (I don't I don't smoke, but hypothetically) I can. I mean, if that means I can only eat once a day or can't put central heating on, but it's still free will.

I don't really have any bad habit that cost money, but yeah, if I want to save up and go to a con, I will. And fortunately not too many people begrudge me that.

I think both systems have merit and can be argued for or against, but a system where the government just pays a sum and does not micromanage is also possible.

Only... government money absolutely can be spent on shit that's bad for you. Like, soda and candy is covered. That's already a thing. The government already decided you're allowed to spend their money on that. You're the one with your panties in a twist.

Wow, if the government does it, it must be right and sensible and no one should ever have opinions about it.

where are you reading anything in this thread claiming it's illegal to buy candy with food stamps?

?????? Where on Earth did I say it was illegal? You ought to be in the Olympics with how far you just jumped.

My point was that you're sitting there steaming about how government money "isn't for" things like junk food, and it. It is. It absolutely is. You can buy soda with government money, thus that money is for soda.

Shouldn't be. SHOULDN'T BE is what's being said.

Explain your logic. Come on, how is it logical?

Um, where are you lost, exactly? Money from the government should not be used on products that are completely unnecessary, actively bad for you, and are barely relevant or totally irrelevant to the intended purpose of the money??

what about disability payments? do you want to decide what disabled people should be allowed to spend that money on, or are you a libertarian and just want to take all of it away?

Nice strawman you've built there.

Cigarettes aren't food

A can of soda ain't giving you any nutrients either

NAYRT--yes it is. Sodas with sugar in them provide sugar, some have vitamin c, all of them have water (okay water's not a nutrient but) and this is coming from someone whose soda intake averages, I dunno, one every couple weeks? Probably not even that, tbh. I get that according to you, people having fun on the government's dime (oh I'm sorry I meant having things that are bad for them oh wait I meant fun) are immoral and deserve punishment, but just because soda's not nutritious compared to a lot of things doesn't mean I wouldn't rather have it than nothing on a desert island. Sugar is still food.

It's hydrating you, though. Also providing caffeine (if it's caffeinated).

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