Not On My Dime
Yid With Lid looks at the “slippery slope” of banning food stamps from buying soda. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/10/nys-soda-ban-for-food-stamps-first-step.html
Yid’s commentator Right Wing Extreme hits the nail on the head. This is not the government banning private citizens from using their own hard earned money. This is the government regulating what citizens can do with other people’s hard earned money. Food stamps themselves are already an attempt to control what welfare recipients do with the tax payers’ dollars. Somewhere along the line some bureaucrat had to notice that welfare recipients don’t manage their money well. Food stamps were invented to make sure that they used at least part of their handout on food.
As a matter of fact I grew up on welfare and was fed by food stamps for a large chunk of my childhood. We never used food stamps to buy soda because we didn’t have enough food stamps to buy food and soda. It seem to me if today’s deserving poor can afford soda, they might not need other’s people’s money as much as we have been told.
Sorry Yid, but libertarian ideals about being allowed to choose don’t work when the ones doing the choosing are using other people’s money.
