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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.

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