Fox Business Host Charles Payne told America Reports co-host Sandra Smith on Tuesday that the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known as “Food Stamps,” was an abuser for the taxpayer fund.
The Ministry of Health and Human Services is trying to ban the use of food stamps to buy soda and other forms of so-called “junk food.” Payne told Smith that it was “fair” to add terms on what can be purchased with funds from government programs. (Related: CNN panels have a fiery exchange after the Wildfire Aid Scott Jenningsback’s condition)
“I think it’s fair to say that people need to decide what they can buy, especially what people buy for their kids. What you know is that there are a lot of things to do with people who have been food stamps for a long time. And that makes sense in terms of diet. My mother worked in a convenience store and she would buy honey vans for the kids and sometimes she said it would be dinner. Listen, it’s taxpayer funds and in the end we want the country to improve.
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“It’s the same. For me, it was the same kind of social responsibility, always a kind of design, the first pilot program, went back to the late 1930s and bought surplus food. It wasn’t all kinds of food. “Almost all of them were temporary programs and when they rekindled them in 1964, they know… they wanted to exempt alcoholic beverages, imported foods, soft drinks, luxurious foods, things like that.”
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to remove sweet drinks containing soda from snaps, Wall Street Journal It has been reported.
“This is the data we can collect recently in 2011, in the way these benefits of SNAPs are spent,” Smith said. “In junk food in particular, 9% will be sweet drinks like soda, 7% will be prepared desserts, honey buns, 3.5%, salty snacks, 2% candy, and another category of sugary drinks.” (Related: MSNBC uses Wisconsin school shooting to drive out doctor doctors targeting RFK JR’s views on vaccines)
“That’s a lot,” Payne replied. “23% of the huge junk food. People say there is a desert or food desert in certain areas, but they’re forbidden to buy junk food, and they can take 23%, and they’re only healthy. These neighborhoods will attract these stores that sell these kinds of healthy things.”
West Virginia Republican Gov. Patrick Morrissey has signed a law banning several artificial food dyes in the state, affecting popular products such as Mountain Dew, Flute Loop Cereal, M&MS Candy, Utz Cheese Ball, Skittles Candy, Lucky Charm Cereal, WTRF, and more It has been reported.
“The argument to keep it the way it is now is a ridiculous discussion on so many levels, so many levels, on economic and health,” Payne said.
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