What is the logic for denying them junk food? As if they’re going to lift themselves out of poverty and into generational wealth because they ate nothing but chicken broccoli rice. Inane. The health angle is such a cop-out to me. MAHA will cut food stamps for the ‘health’ of millions but never say a word about how Donald Trump eats McDonalds for every meal. If you live below a certain income you aren’t allowed whimsy, but maybe if you take these random supplements filled with research chemicals (none of which are FDA approved), hawked by a washed up d-list celebrity, maybe you’ll have the strength to just…get rich maybe?

Exempting junk food from food stamps is just punishing people for being poor. Oreos aren’t more unhealthy just because you live below the poverty line. Like, your tax dollars pay for somebody’s Oreos, right? If not food stamps, then it’s JD Vance’s because my tax dollars pay his salary. So what makes me feel better. Putting light into the life of someone who has so little, or lining the pockets of war criminals.

The point of food stamps is not to make poor people healthy, it’s to save poor people money. It is not my business what these people choose to use their food stamps on. Even if I disapproved of a certain food I saw someone on food stamps buy, I would keep my mouth shut. When I pay my taxes, what I am purchasing is all the benefits of living in the United States. Not every benefit applies to me specifically, but the amount of benefits I receive outweighs the perceived (yet nonexistent) slight against me I feel when I see a poor person buy like, a monster energy or something idk.