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A comment on U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further. Parent comment

Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further by ams6110 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:52AM (#18561601)
To be fair, it's much easier to separate "food" from "not food" than to have to qualify whether any particular product is "good" or "junk" food.

Can you imagine the additional bureaucracy needed to classify (and enforce) the use of food stamps on a more granular level?

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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further by briandear on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:15PM (#18561796)
They seem to do just fine with the WIC program. Make food stamps just like WIC.
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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further by xxpor on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:53PM (#18562133)
Or just give people cash and let them make their own decisions.
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