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  • Toribor@corndog.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule :(
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    5 days ago

    The actual problem: Many parts of America are food deserts where people do not have access to affordable nutritious food. This problem is exacerbated for those below the poverty line who may not have access to a vehicle.

    But solving that problem is hard so it’s just way easier to make sure that poor people aren’t allowed to buy the food that is accessible to them. Making desperate people even more desperate… I’m sure that wont have any unintended consequences.


  • Toribor@corndog.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule :(
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    5 days ago

    This is exactly it. People are outraged imagining that other people on food stamps are out eating lobster dinners every night and they cheer on the idea of adding all sorts of restrictions on what people are allowed to buy. It’s dehumanizing and it doesn’t actually solve any problems, it just creates new ones. Now people are at the store trying to figure out what they can afford because spaghetti is covered but spaghetti sauce is not and no one has time to make a fresh spaghetti sauce from scratch after working two jobs but some fuck thought it was funny to stick it to the poors and pass a bunch of complicated restrictions that make it a pain in the ass for everyone.