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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1576607" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Missouri Republicans To The Poor: No More Lobster Or Adult Films </strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Missouri State Representative <a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/member.aspx?district=055" target="_blank">Rick Brattin</a> (R) has proposed a bill that seeks to limit what recipients of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) — commonly referred to as food stamps — are able to purchase with their benefits. House Bill 813 attempts <a href="http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2015/03/missouri_lawmakers_think_welfare_recipients_waste_money_on_fish_steak_and_porn.php" target="_blank">to prohibit SNAP recipients</a> from purchasing fish, steak, soda, cookies, chips and energy drinks.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>An easy case could be made for prohibiting the purchase of such food items as cookies and chips — or junk food, in general — as those items provide very little actual nutrition, which is the whole purpose of the SNAP program. Nutrition experts have been <a href="http://iphionline.org/pdf/SNAP_Decisions.pdf" target="_blank">exploring the possibility of removing such items</a> from the approved list of what SNAP recipients can purchase for awhile.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The new bill doesn’t take just luxury items such as filet mignon and lobster off the menu for Missouri SNAP recipients — it eliminates such items as tuna fish, fish sticks, and cheaper cuts of beef, such as flank steak.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Republican legislators in Missouri, because alongside House Bill 813 is House Bill 977, sponsored by Rep. J. Eggleston (R), which, <a href="http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills151/sumpdf/HB0977I.pdf" target="_blank">as the bill itself states</a>, “adds pornography to the list of items that are prohibited from being purchased with TANF or SNAP benefits using an EBT card.”</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1576607, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Missouri Republicans To The Poor: No More Lobster Or Adult Films [/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][B]Missouri State Representative [URL='http://www.house.mo.gov/member.aspx?district=055']Rick Brattin[/URL] (R) has proposed a bill that seeks to limit what recipients of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) — commonly referred to as food stamps — are able to purchase with their benefits. House Bill 813 attempts [URL='http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2015/03/missouri_lawmakers_think_welfare_recipients_waste_money_on_fish_steak_and_porn.php']to prohibit SNAP recipients[/URL] from purchasing fish, steak, soda, cookies, chips and energy drinks. An easy case could be made for prohibiting the purchase of such food items as cookies and chips — or junk food, in general — as those items provide very little actual nutrition, which is the whole purpose of the SNAP program. Nutrition experts have been [URL='http://iphionline.org/pdf/SNAP_Decisions.pdf']exploring the possibility of removing such items[/URL] from the approved list of what SNAP recipients can purchase for awhile. The new bill doesn’t take just luxury items such as filet mignon and lobster off the menu for Missouri SNAP recipients — it eliminates such items as tuna fish, fish sticks, and cheaper cuts of beef, such as flank steak. Republican legislators in Missouri, because alongside House Bill 813 is House Bill 977, sponsored by Rep. J. Eggleston (R), which, [URL='http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills151/sumpdf/HB0977I.pdf']as the bill itself states[/URL], “adds pornography to the list of items that are prohibited from being purchased with TANF or SNAP benefits using an EBT card.” [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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