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In reply to the discussion: Trump: Cutting food assistance in budget bill "is going to give everybody much more food because prices are..." [View all]
Ol Janx Spirit
(400 posts)29. Sure, it would makes sense that if grocery prices dropped then your reduced food assistance...
...would buy the same amount of food--or even more. But that is not a predictable reality for those receiving assistance. Tying assistance to some reliable index of actual food prices might make sense if your real goal is to make sure people that need assistance get it while the government does not spend money it doesn't have to in order to help people. That does not seem to be what is happening here.
While they are at it they could tie tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations to actual economic growth. But again, that's not what is happening here.
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Trump: Cutting food assistance in budget bill "is going to give everybody much more food because prices are..." [View all]
Miles Archer
May 2025
OP
Trump had already gone completely off the rails, the media just needed a way to create some false equivalence.
sop
May 2025
#8
How on earth does cutting food assistance make more food suddenly appear? Because the people
Vinca
May 2025
#3
That's how I interpreted it. Dead people don't eat or receive SNAP benefits. In
allegorical oracle
May 2025
#38
Gas $3 a gallon. Eggs $5 a dozen. Pork chops on sale 4 chops for $8 😡 everything is higher
TommieMommy
May 2025
#5
From the information I can find, the average price of eggs here in January 2024 was about $2.50 dozen
Wiz Imp
May 2025
#19
Just bought 18 eggs for $8 at a big box store. Always open the container to check for
allegorical oracle
May 2025
#39
It's called "power psychosis" -- a mental illness -- because he's living in a delusional world
William Seger
May 2025
#25
Not true on energy's down. While groceries was down 0.4% in April, its up (slightly) over the last 3 months
progree
May 2025
#27
Sure, it would makes sense that if grocery prices dropped then your reduced food assistance...
Ol Janx Spirit
May 2025
#29
After this last decade of enduring his presence, have decided that he has no clue
allegorical oracle
May 2025
#40