Quote from: Viper1 on November 03, 2019, 02:42:08 AM

"provide three free meals per day for all U.S. school children"

They are not talking about providing for those in need, they're talking about government taking over the responsibility of parents to provide for their children. That's not socialism, that's socialist and that's where I draw the line. Once again, they're using children for votes cause they know it's an emotional issue for people in the same way they use it for gun control and the right uses it for abortion. It disgusts me when anyone uses kids as a means to try and sway opinion on an issue. And to be clear, I have no problem providing assistance for those who need it for awhile.

im in agreement
my opinion is this though
all under 18's getting 3 meals a day for all 365 days a year is just 2%
yet the money going to banks is more like 8-10%
id personally prefer banks get 0 and then have 6-8% for other things and 2% to make sure no one starves

as for this 2% meal cost. this is not caviar, steak and gourmet food. its simple basic
bowl of cereal or toast...
sandwich and fruit
basic portion of meat and 3 veg

you know real basic but also proper unprocessed nutrition. whereby the kids that want the luxuries of coloured sugar milkshakes and pizza and chocolate bars and potato chip snacks can pay for the 'convenience' foods

what you end up finding is not every child ends up taking the free stuff and instead buys what they can afford but still leaves those that cant afford it well fed

they have actually done studies on many things like offered a community group free footwear. and found that some familes still bought the latest nike footwear and never even took up the free footwear offer. thus saving the budget allowance alloted for footwear

the studies also shown that the savings of those not taking the offer. did not end up as any tax refunds to the community. but then spent on stupid 'admin costs' and corporate deals for other things.. yep viper hoping his tax bracket would go from 32% to 16% if he just allocated spending of $100 to be just $50 wont get him a 16% bracket. instead the funds he did not allocated would self re-allocate themselves to double the budget of the $50 he did allocate