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EBT Restrictions on Pop


               
2025 Mar 27, 11:17am   3,116 views  103 comments

by Patrick   follow (59)  

It seems reasonable to me to disallow the purchase of pop, aka "soda", with EBT (food stamp) cards.

The point of those EBT cards is to get poor people some nutrition. Drinking sugar syrup is the opposite of getting nutrition.

I have a Chinese friend who bought stock in both Coca-Cola and dialysis centers. His reasoning is that he wins on both ends: Coca-Cola causes obesity and kidney disease, and then those poisoned people need dialysis later. Evil reasoning, but not incorrect.

There are many billions of dollars at stake here, all derived from poisoning the public via sugar-water purchased with public money.

So the companies making the poison have started paying off "influencers" on X etc to claim that it's a violation of "freedom" somehow to restrict EBT cards so that they can't buy that poison. It's kind of sad to see them sell out.

Unspoken is the fact that EBT already limits what food you can buy with public money. I think it has to at least have a nutrition label on it to be eligible.

I'd never tell people what they can't buy with their own money, but preventing people from using public money to give themselves diabetes seems fine to me.

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/fatsteria-best-big-soda-memes-beware-paid-influencers










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25   Booger   2025 Oct 26, 2:22pm  

I can see why some families are losing it over the SNAP cuts

Some families haven't bought groceries since the 1950s/60s

They have no memory of ever paying for food, there are people in their 50s, 60s, who have never actually paid for groceries, ever
26   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2025 Oct 26, 2:36pm  

I was a cashier at a grocery in NW San Antonio in the late 80s early 90s and it was rare. In ~3 years I only experienced one person using food stamps and they were literally a roll of stamps that they had to pull out and count in front of everybody. Embarrassment discourages that shit. Now when I'm in line in the same area I see people using the EBT cards all-the-time.

If I recall it was obama who moved things from stamps to cards and expanded that shit greatly.
27   FreeAmericanDOP   2025 Oct 26, 4:21pm  

I saw a video with a lady angry she might have to use "Her Money" to buy food because her mom's EBT wouldn't work.
28   SunnyvaleCA   2025 Oct 26, 4:44pm  

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

I saw a video with a lady angry she might have to use "Her Money" to buy food because her mom's EBT wouldn't work.

Many people that have EBT have additional sources of money. That's why restricting EBT to only "essentials," while a good message and good policty, won't actually change eating habits.
29   FreeAmericanDOP   2025 Oct 26, 5:48pm  

Yep, but it's important not to allow PepsiCo/YUM! and 711 to base any income on EBT. Or they too become a constitutent, which is a problem.
30   Misc   2025 Oct 26, 7:10pm  

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

If I recall it was obama who moved things from stamps to cards and expanded that shit greatly.


In Obama's defense, he removed the shame of asking for government assistance after bailing out the fucking rich bankers and others with Junk bonds.

Compared to the BAILOUT of the rich, food stamps is paltry.
31   FreeAmericanDOP   2025 Oct 26, 7:12pm  

> food stamps run out
> riots
> insurrection act

It can't be that easy.
https://x.com/LokiJulianus/status/1982293875755491693

(It'll also be the Dem's fault)
34   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2025 Oct 27, 5:49am  

Booger says




So many questions.

1.) Who keeps fucking her?
2.) Is she clinically mentally retarded?
3.) When does Trump ramp up the return to Africa campaign?
35   PeopleUnited   2025 Oct 27, 7:06am  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

return to Africa campaign?

Make Africa Great Again!!!
36   Glock-n-Load   2025 Oct 27, 8:36am  

You’ve got to make these videos shareable. How can I share them?
38   FortWayneHatesRealtors   2025 Oct 27, 1:28pm  

DemoralizerOfPanicans says






Fast food gets a lot from EBT. You know it well, many businesses are direct beneficiaries of EBT. That’s the people who want dependency.

Landlords and builders in CA benefit hugely from section 8 and welfare payments.
41   AD   2025 Oct 27, 5:12pm  

Make EBT money stretch like breakfast for dinner.

Even if not on EBT, cook eggs to make French toast (Wonder Bread and add a little cinnamon).

And Kool Aid Tropic Fruit Punch mix has vitamin C in it. And can buy with EBT on Amazon.

Boil some chicken legs pieces in pot of water and add some diced carrots and yellow onions along with a little garlic and then serve with rice to make chicken soup. Add some chicken bouillon cubes if needed for extra seasoning.

Lots of ways to stretch food budget and still enjoy simple pleasures.
42   FreeAmericanDOP   2025 Oct 27, 5:14pm  

Yep, you can make a shitton of food with a handful of vegetables, noodles/rice/flour, and cheap cuts of meat.
43   RC2006   2025 Oct 27, 6:58pm  

Snap should be very limited to what can be had. Should only be whole foods. No fast food, sodas, processed foods ect. I always thought it should be breeds, produce, milk, eggs, meat.
47   FreeAmericanDOP   2025 Oct 29, 2:44pm  

I was today years old when I found that not only coffee, but the premium priced coffee cups, are SNAP/EBT eligible.
48   Patrick   2025 Oct 29, 5:22pm  


@WallStreetApes

More Americans exposing the truth about the SNAP EBT Program
"The real reason why a lot of people are upset about this whole food
stamps snap benefit thing, bro, is because they're selling their food stamps.
They're selling them. I'm telling you, they are selling their food stamps. You
know how many people in New York and other states right now are going to
the corner store, the deli, and they're selling their food stamps"
"That's why they're getting like $4,000 - $3,000 in food stamps, and
they're selling it for cash. They'll get $4,000 in food stamps and they'll just
take like $1,000 in cash. Like bro, like that's happening like everywhere.
That's why they're mad."
"They will never admit to selling their food stamps. But it's happening."
50   Misc   2025 Oct 29, 6:06pm  

Any bets on how long it will be before every retail store uses the Costco membership model of business. Require customers to pay a fee upfront for the privilege of shopping there and requiring identification before they can enter. Only way I see to cut down on retail crime.
51   FreeAmericanDOP   2025 Oct 29, 6:19pm  

Misc says


Any bets on how long it will be before every retail store uses the Costco membership model of business. Require customers to pay a fee upfront for the privilege of shopping there and requiring identification before they can enter. Only way I see to cut down on retail crime.

I think that's a CA thing.

We don't have any of that here in Florida. Not even in the big cities, other than the usual trying to grab a candy bar or 40 and run off with it from a convenience store type thing. But that doesn't usually go well for the perp with all the cameras.
52   Patrick   2025 Oct 29, 6:21pm  

Retail is being killed off by Amazon and other online shopping anyway, except for boutique places.

No retail theft if there is no retail. But then, people steal Amazon packages off your doorstep.
53   Ceffer   2025 Oct 29, 6:28pm  

That's why they call them Democrats.



57   Glock-n-Load   2025 Oct 30, 3:52am  

Patrick says


WallStreetApes

More Americans exposing the truth about the SNAP EBT Program
"The real reason why a lot of people are upset about this whole food
stamps snap benefit thing, bro, is because they're selling their food stamps.
They're selling them. I'm telling you, they are selling their food stamps. You
know how many people in New York and other states right now are going to
the corner store, the deli, and they're selling their food stamps"
"That's why they're getting like $4,000 - $3,000 in food stamps, and
they're selling it for cash. They'll get $4,000 in food stamps and they'll just
take like $1,000 in cash. Like bro, like that's happening like everywhere.
That's why they're mad."
"They will never admit to selling their food stamps. But it's happening."


I don’t see how this is possible. Each person only gets $190 per month in EBT.
59   zzyzzx   2025 Oct 30, 7:04am  

Glock-n-Load says

I don’t see how this is possible. Each person only gets $190 per month in EBT.

Source?

AI overview:
The amount of EBT (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - SNAP) benefits varies by household size, income, and expenses, with the average household receiving around $332 per month as of fiscal year 2023. For a family of three with no income, the maximum benefit could be $785 per month (fiscal year 2026 estimate), while a one-person household might receive a minimum of $23 per month, with the maximum for a single person being up to $298 (as of October 2025, in some areas).

8-person household: $1,789

But remember there can be multiple "families" living an a household whose combined EBT exceeds that.
61   Glock-n-Load   2025 Oct 30, 8:05pm  

zzyzzx says

Glock-n-Load says


I don’t see how this is possible. Each person only gets $190 per month in EBT.

Source?

AI overview:
The amount of EBT (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - SNAP) benefits varies by household size, income, and expenses, with the average household receiving around $332 per month as of fiscal year 2023. For a family of three with no income, the maximum benefit could be $785 per month (fiscal year 2026 estimate), while a one-person household might receive a minimum of $23 per month, with the maximum for a single person being up to $298 (as of October 2025, in some areas).

8-person household: $1,789

But remember there can be multiple "families" living an a household whose combined EBT exceeds that.

That’s a long way from $3,000-$4,000.
62   Misc   2025 Oct 31, 3:53am  

Glock-n-Load says

That’s a long way from $3,000-$4,000.


What ???? - You think they only sign up once ???
63   Glock-n-Load   2025 Oct 31, 6:45am  

Hmm, maybe there’s something to this new financial SNAP opportunity.

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