Comments on: Florida Lawmakers Want To Make Soft Drinks Off Limits For Food Stamps http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tabby http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354476 Tabby Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:09:10 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354476 @Kym Why should anyone listen to your suggestions ? Apparently, you don't make good decisions. You should have thought of your financial means before you had a toddler and infant. Too many having children before being financially stable. You just cheat your children out of their childhood. Then again, if your a 40 year old woman who wears short shorts with "baby girl" across the rear end, your actions are suspect anyway. @Kym
Why should anyone listen to your suggestions ? Apparently, you don’t make good decisions. You should have thought of your financial means before you had a toddler and infant.
Too many having children before being financially stable. You just cheat your children out of their childhood. Then again, if your a 40 year old woman who wears short shorts with “baby girl” across the rear end, your actions are suspect anyway.

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354469 David Huie Green Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:50:51 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354469 CONTEMPLATING: "those who do have an issue with it, why do you not concern yourselves with corporate welfare?" How many Pepsis are the corporations buying with EBTs? Corporate welfare - Wikipedia "Corporate welfare is a term that analogizes corporate subsidies to welfare payments for the poor. The term is often used to describe a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment for corporations." One would think there might be a difference. Give a $100 tax break to a corporation in EXCHANGE for a binding promise to bring in a thousand jobs paying $100,000 per year for forty years might be a fair exchange. If the break is higher or the jobs fewer or lower paying or not guaranteed to last as long, it might be a bad deal. Depends on the deal. Which one costs more, does more, improves more? Free Pepsi or some evil tax break? It is always interesting when someone considers NOT taking money from a person to be welfare. David for nutritious meals & better deals CONTEMPLATING:
“those who do have an issue with it, why do you not concern yourselves with corporate welfare?”

How many Pepsis are the corporations buying with EBTs?

Corporate welfare – Wikipedia
“Corporate welfare is a term that analogizes corporate subsidies to welfare payments for the poor. The term is often used to describe a government’s bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment for corporations.”

One would think there might be a difference. Give a $100 tax break to a corporation in EXCHANGE for a binding promise to bring in a thousand jobs paying $100,000 per year for forty years might be a fair exchange.

If the break is higher or the jobs fewer or lower paying or not guaranteed to last as long, it might be a bad deal. Depends on the deal.

Which one costs more, does more, improves more? Free Pepsi or some evil tax break?
It is always interesting when someone considers NOT taking money from a person to be welfare.

David for nutritious meals & better deals

]]> By: David http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354465 David Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:48:24 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354465 @ R C. There is no pizza place @ Nine Mile and Pine Forest. There is a Shell Station with a convenience store and checking with a friend who works there, they don't sell pizza. @ R C. There is no pizza place @ Nine Mile and Pine Forest. There is a Shell Station with a convenience store and checking with a friend who works there, they don’t sell pizza.

]]> By: Not surprised http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354451 Not surprised Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:47:13 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354451 I am not surprised at the comments here that vilify the poor. After all, we do live in a conservative area and the onus is upon the conservatives who describe themselves as Christian to vilify the poor. Cutting out sodas from the SNAP program will not help. It is another mean spirited way to attack the poor people in Florida. For those who call themselves Christians but get angry because some poor person dares to buy a soft drink with their EBT card, perhaps it is time to really look at why you call yourself a Christian when you clearly do not follow Jesus' teachings. For pete's sake, let them enjoy a soda. And those who do have an issue with it, why do you not concern yourselves with corporate welfare? I am not surprised at the comments here that vilify the poor. After all, we do live in a conservative area and the onus is upon the conservatives who describe themselves as Christian to vilify the poor. Cutting out sodas from the SNAP program will not help. It is another mean spirited way to attack the poor people in Florida. For those who call themselves Christians but get angry because some poor person dares to buy a soft drink with their EBT card, perhaps it is time to really look at why you call yourself a Christian when you clearly do not follow Jesus’ teachings. For pete’s sake, let them enjoy a soda.
And those who do have an issue with it, why do you not concern yourselves with corporate welfare?

]]> By: Bob's Brother http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354448 Bob's Brother Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:44:55 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354448 I agree that we should go back to giving out meat, cheese, milk, sugar, and canned goods. It makes me want to cry when I see someone pay for $16.99 per pound Yellowfin Tuna and jumbo peeled and deveined shrimp at local seafood market with EBT card. That's just wrong. I agree that we should go back to giving out meat, cheese, milk, sugar, and canned goods. It makes me want to cry when I see someone pay for $16.99 per pound Yellowfin Tuna and jumbo peeled and deveined shrimp at local seafood market with EBT card. That’s just wrong.

]]> By: Astonished http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354408 Astonished Sun, 03 Dec 2017 03:38:28 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354408 It's food stamps, not convienent store free drinks. Should be used to buy family food to make it through and feed your family. Not so you can stop by the convienent store for drinks and a candy bar. All these convienent stores now accepting ebt...they don't want to lose out on that money either. Need to be accepted only at grocery stores or where groceries are sold. It’s food stamps, not convienent store free drinks.
Should be used to buy family food to make it through and feed your family. Not so you can stop by the convienent store for drinks and a candy bar.
All these convienent stores now accepting ebt…they don’t want to lose out on that money either.
Need to be accepted only at grocery stores or where groceries are sold.

]]> By: B. P. http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354382 B. P. Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:11:56 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354382 If you don't know how to make cookies with the ingredients that are allowed for purchase with SNAP / EBT, (sugar, flour, eggs), just goggle it on your Iphone. Alot of people care more about their damn phone than feeding their children. If you don’t know how to make cookies with the ingredients that are allowed for purchase with SNAP / EBT, (sugar, flour, eggs), just goggle it on your Iphone. Alot of people care more about their damn phone than feeding their children.

]]> By: mike http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354381 mike Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:04:25 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354381 It seems the true deplorables are the poor. :mad: It seems the true deplorables are the poor. :mad:

]]> By: mike http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354380 mike Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:00:39 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354380 be·grudge: give reluctantly or resentfully. :mad: be·grudge: give reluctantly or resentfully. :mad:

]]> By: Donna http://www.northescambia.com/2017/12/florida-lawmakers-want-to-make-soft-drinks-off-limits-for-food-stamps/comment-page-1#comment-354375 Donna Sat, 02 Dec 2017 14:35:55 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=306152#comment-354375 The money they save buy only allowing the essentials foods . Teaching welfare receivers how to half a pound of hamburger meat to make two meals for your families and many more ways to save !!! Maybe they could put funds into lowering health insurance and deductibles so working class Americans can get good health care . Oh no !!! I woke up that was just a dream !!!! The money they save buy only allowing the essentials foods . Teaching welfare receivers how to half a pound of hamburger meat to make two meals for your families and many more ways to save !!! Maybe they could put funds into lowering health insurance and deductibles so working class Americans can get good health care .
Oh no !!! I woke up that was just a dream !!!!

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