# Should people only be allowed to purchase ingredients with food stamps?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-only-be-allowed-to-purchase-ingredients-with-food-stamps/549410>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 6, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-only-be-allowed-to-purchase-ingredients-with-food-stamps/549410 "2010-08-06T16:08:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-only-be-allowed-to-purchase-ingredients-with-food-stamps/549410/582 "2010-08-22T21:12:25Z")

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[How DARE this man enjoy a sugar-filled mountain dew on OUR dime!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al5WLdcnDyU&feature=featured)

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-only-be-allowed-to-purchase-ingredients-with-food-stamps/549410/583 "2010-08-22T21:39:07Z")

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> [@gonzomax](#):
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> [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/carl-paladino-backs-welfa\_n\_690284.html](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/carl-paladino-backs-welfa_n_690284.html) Here is a guy who understands the spirit of the argument. Get the poor away from us. Put them in prisons and teach prison guards to give them their superior judgement. teach them hygiene too. They know so little about how they should act.

Oh man. “Please sir, can I have some more?”

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-people-only-be-allowed-to-purchase-ingredients-with-food-stamps/549410/584 "2010-08-23T16:57:32Z")

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> [@gonzomax](#):
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> It would seem that most would not want people in America to starve to death. But if they are getting your tax money ,they should look more like the people who were in concentration camps. They should be waiflike. If they are pudgy, that would indicate they are overfed . My tax money should not support people in such grand fashion.  
> A debate about how you can tell who is overweight completely misses the point. Which is exactly what you are doing.

I didn’t miss the point. That was my point. I just respond to personal attacks.  
Why should people starve? Do we have land that they can go out and farm to raise their own food? Do we have jobs for everybody to do so they can buy their own food? Should the food industry suffer and everyone else pay more for food because our economy is rigged to provide imbalanced benefit? And ‘grand fashion’? You must be tempted to go on the dole and live in the lap of luxury.

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