If we could snap our fingers and make healthy food cheaper, this plan might be fine. But if you don’t do that, this idea just ends up making calories more expensive for poor people. Perhaps it could work okay if people also got more money’s-worth of food stamps, but even then there are food deserts where people just don’t have groceries within a reasonable distance.
I don’t see a future where politicians are willing to spend more money helping people, so if that’s the case then letting people continue to use SNAP on junk food is necessary.
If we could snap our fingers and make healthy food cheaper, this plan might be fine. But if you don’t do that, this idea just ends up making calories more expensive for poor people. Perhaps it could work okay if people also got more money’s-worth of food stamps, but even then there are food deserts where people just don’t have groceries within a reasonable distance.
I don’t see a future where politicians are willing to spend more money helping people, so if that’s the case then letting people continue to use SNAP on junk food is necessary.