phattonetz, always charming the audience,
Try cutting SNAP and see how swiftly Red states, who are high recipients of food stamps, see how swiftly they flip from a conservative position to a liberal one. It's asinine to suggest cutting a program that costs roughly $70-80B, in the context of a Defense Department running a $600 Billion dollar budget. And you want to tell me that poor people and seniors on food stamps, are spending too much of your money. The DoD is spending too much of my money. Trump's DoD hikes in the neighborhood of $60B, will show up as a nice chunk coming out of my paycheck, going towards an expense that I do not approve of.
Cutting food stamps is consequential to spending. Poor people that cannot even afford to buy groceries, aren't stimulating local economy much to begin with, but adding a monthly grocery expense, to an already stringent budget, is setting yourself up for economic failure. All grocery stores should lobby the federal government, against cutting SNAP, and arm themselves with a humanitarian argument, supplemented by an economic brazier. If you cut spending on SNAP.. You cut spending in the community. You damage local economy. you damage personal livelihood.
Anyone advocating for cutting spending on SNAP, is walking into dangerous territory, and making a move only a simpleton would advocate for.
