COMMENTARY | Do more than 44 million Americans need a food stamp grocery police to inspect their purchases? How about the 16.3 percent of Floridians, as identified by the Wall Street Journal, who are receiving food stamp assistance? The Sun Sentinel highlights two Republican lawmakers who are introducing this type of legislation in Florida. Claiming taxpayers should not foot the bill for the poor to buy obesity-causing soda, candy or ice cream with food stamps, they are working on adding this contraband to the items already ineligible for food stamps purchases — cigarettes, toilet paper, pet food and booze. In short, if you are poor, HB 1401 will make sure your children will not have any “sweetened beverages, including sodas; sweets, such as Jell-o, candy, ice cream, pudding, popsicles, muffins, sweet rolls, cakes, cupcakes, pies, cobblers, pastries, and doughnuts; and salty snack foods, such as corn-based salty snacks, pretzels, party mix, popcorn, and potato chips.” Is the emphasis really on healthy eating? Because if this is the case, then what constitutes “healthy?” The Montana Office of Public Education believes snack foods are healthy, as long as they do not feature more than 30 percent of calories from fat — no more than 10 percent from saturated fat — and portion size is limited to 1.25 ounces. If Florida has its way, the food stamp provided snacks you pack in your child’s Justin Bieber lunch bag are limited to celery stalks and peeled carrots. I understand the …
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