The House’s passage today of the Republican leadership’s bill to cut SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) by almost $40 billion over the next decade marks a new low for an already dysfunctional Congress.……why is it those big agribusiness corporations don't step in here and smack those "Republican leadership" guys upside the head? Forty billion? Bunky, people who get help from SNAP don't eat the money. They spend it. On food. (If you think $1.40 per meal leaves people playing around money you ought to sue your brain surgeon for theft). They spend it on food, and it winds up in the pockets of said big corporations in the end. Forty billion. This is the very kind of free (i.e. government-fluffed) market economics these R's have wet dreams about.
SNAP recipients already are preparing for an across-the-board cut in their SNAP benefits beginning in November that will reduce their modest benefits to less than $1.40 per person per meal.
So what's going on?
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