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Court rejects secrecy for food stamp numbers

Yeah it is. You disagree because you have some odd dislike of money.

No it isn't. You disagree because you have some odd respect for money.
 
Spending money is not a form of speech. Double period.


Is a boycott a form of free speech?

Edit: More importantly, let's say the federal government outlawed individual donations to campaigns. Do you think the government has that right?
 
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Interesting that quite a few conservatives think lobbyists should be banned. I think you need to redefine your definition of 'conservatives'.

i agree i do think that all lobbyists should be banned. that includes unions. for me this is an all or nothing issue.
 
Is a boycott a form of free speech?

Edit: More importantly, let's say the federal government outlawed individual donations to campaigns. Do you think the government has that right?

He does. He is one of those democrats who thinks the people should be taxed to pay for the campaigns of people they do no even want to be in office through more taxation.
 
He does. He is one of those democrats who thinks the people should be taxed to pay for the campaigns of people they do no even want to be in office through more taxation.

I wish there was a way to let people live under the government they freely advocate for. Most people really deserve it. ;)
 
Interesting that quite a few conservatives think lobbyists should be banned. I think you need to redefine your definition of 'conservatives'.

Ok. Republicans, then.
 
Ok. Republicans, then.

I'm guessing your missing the fact that Democrats are in bed with the Corporate world and the Unions too?

It's all of them... it isn't defined by their political lean any more, it's defined by who can scratch their back the best.....
 
I'm guessing your missing the fact that Democrats are in bed with the Corporate world and the Unions too?

It's all of them... it isn't defined by their political lean any more, it's defined by who can scratch their back the best.....

I agree.
 
In light of things like this, it is amazing how conservatives can justify corporate money in politics.

the same way liberals justify it, except they would rather do it in secret
 
Interesting that quite a few conservatives think lobbyists should be banned. I think you need to redefine your definition of 'conservatives'.

I think lobbyists should be banned and I'm absolutely a conservative.
 
Is a boycott a form of free speech?

Edit: More importantly, let's say the federal government outlawed individual donations to campaigns. Do you think the government has that right?

A boycott is an exercise of the freedom we generally have to not purchase things we do not want. Advocating for a boycott is an exercise in free speech.

As to whether the government can outlaw contributions altogether... Sure, whatever is good for the Republic.
 
A federal appeals court has rejected the Obama Administration's attempt to keep secret the government's data on how much individual retailers take in from the food stamp program.

In a ruling Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit turned down the U.S. Department of Agriculture's arguments that a provision in federal law protecting retailers' application information from disclosure also barred disclosure of how much the feds pay out to specific businesses.

"Because the retailer spending information is not 'submit[ted]' by 'an applicant retail food store or wholesale food concern...' the information is not exempt from disclosure. The department, not any retailer, generates the information, and the underlying data is 'obtained' from third-party payment processors, not from individual retailers," Chief Judge William Jay Riley wrote in an opinion joined by Judges Steven Colloton and Jane Kelly.

(Also on POLITICO: The new faces of food stamps)

The judges acted on an appeal filed by South Dakota's Argus Leader newspaper after the USDA turned down the paper's Freedom of Information Act request for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments to individual retailers on an annual basis from 2005 to 2010. A district court judge agreed with the federal government's argument that part of the food stamp program statute barred such disclosure, making the data exempt from FOIA.

Court rejects Obama Administration secrecy on food stamps - POLITICO.com

Transparency my butt!
 
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