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This is not even close to the same. People on food stamps spend substantially less on vegetables and fruit. More on frozen food, desserts and sweetened beverages. Their diet is even more terrible than the typical American and taxpayers are subsidizing bad behavior. [/quote]

And the reason for that has already been explained many times. Fresh fruit and vegetables don't keep, they take time, skill, and a stocked kitchen to prepare, and many low income people use food as pleasure/entertainment since they cannot afford additional activities.

You're being willfully obtuse. Why us it easier for you all to believe a whole contingent of the population chooses to act entirely illogically, than it is for you to believe the mechanics of our society are broken in such a way that their unfortunate choices are the result of them trying to survive that broken system? Do you honestly, in your heart of hearts believe that people WANT to live this way?[/quote]

We all know WHY people are filling their carts with sodas and other junk: Because they can. Because we are paying for it and it’s quick and easy. But as others have pointed out, we then are forced to pay for their insulin and leg amputations and everything else when they are obese with diabetes because we are allowing it. We should be making it easier for them to make better decisions by simply not buying this damaging food FOR THEM. If they want to spend their own money on it, go ahead. But we shouldn’t be buying it FOR THEM. I honestly cannot understand what is remotely controversial about that.[/quote]

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