• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    23 hours ago

    I’ve seen food stamps used at farmer’s markets, SNAP doesn’t dictate who or how people grow food, that’s a different issue. But hey I guess the situation will improve now that SNAP is being halted, right? /s

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      23 hours ago

      It doesn’t dictate how they grow the food but the number one recipient of those dollars are the owners of retail food sellers and the biggest of these are companies like Walmart.

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        22 hours ago

        Walmart and many other companies underpay workers enough that they have to rely on food stamps. They use food stamps to subsidize their labor costs to avoid paying their workers enough to buy food.

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          21 hours ago

          Yes. We are subsidizing the wealthiest corporations in the world to underpay their workers and then we’re subsidizing those workers to pay full retail price for the food that we are subsidizing farmers to produce. Yet no one who works for a living is making any money.

          Farmers aren’t making any money, retail workers aren’t making any money, train workers aren’t making any money, truck drivers aren’t making any money, but Walmart, Monsanto and Union Pacific are doing fantastic.

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        22 hours ago

        I wish when Democrats brought up how silly purity tests are they would use your comment as an example. People eating is more important than starving a corporation.