C-Mag wrote:
Bloomberg - In what would be one of the biggest shakeups of the U.S. food-stamp program in its five-decade history, President Donald Trump is proposing to slash cash payments and substitute them with "100 percent American grown food" given to recipients.
The changes, outlined Monday in Trump’s budget proposal, would reshape the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which supports roughly one in eight Americans, by reducing cash spending by about one-third from current levels.
I kind of love this plan. What's the down side ?
Not sure what the details are, but if it's like a government-run "blue apron", then the main problems would be that people could lack access to sufficient kitchen resources, tools and implements, electricity, and even time to prepare the food. Also, I shudder to imagine the Blue Apron meal plans decided upon by a government bureaucracy whose purpose is to prop up the food and agricultural industries with more subsidies.
Personally, I think the solution is to not fuck much with the food assistance at the federal level, per se, but rather at the local level we ought to set aside land for community farming. I would go about it more like the Inca did with the Mita system.
