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- politics
- antitrumpalliance
Arizona recorded the largest drop in enrollment after the bill became law. The legislation tightened eligibility rules for food assistance and increased state screening requirements. State data through May shows that more than 450,000 Arizonans have come off Snap, cutting overall participation within the state in half.
According to the CBPP analysis, children make up a significant portion of those losing benefits, with more than 1 million children across the 19 states studied no longer receiving Snap assistance.
In Louisiana, nearly one in four children receiving Snap benefits lost assistance. Massachusetts and Texas each saw close to one-fifth of children enrolled in the program removed from Snap.
And further below, the cause for the suffering of children:
The report says the steep decline in participation is likely tied in large part to the 2025 Republican reconciliation law, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which shifted a substantial share of Snap benefit costs to states based on their payment error rates.
Food “benefit”. 🤡
Americans are such clowns in their rhetoric. Everything gets twisted.
Food is not a “benefit”.
“Benefit” is one of the less inflammatory descriptions. Republicans typically demonize these programs by referring to them as ‘entitlements’.
The word “entitlement” is one that the cons have loved to weaponize - they make it sound like the people getting entitlements are entitled little brats (or welfare queens, as Ronnie Raygun put it), when it’s about the legal framework of those programs.
They love to twist language - see their use of the word “elite” as another great example. People with ungodly amounts of money don’t count as elite in their view, but someone that cracks open a book is an elite.
Free food from the government is absolutely a benefit. In fact many workplaces offer free meals as a benefit.
It’s actually a human right as defined by the UN - https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Article 25
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control
Goes very nicely with
Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality
Does the US uphold human rights? No. That’s the main issue here.
So you don’t pay for food in your country?
Stupid take.
I’m saying SNAP is funded through national effort and international cooperation. Which USians are entitled to as part of their basic human rights.
So you believe everyone should get free government provided food, clothing, and housing?
Then by your definition there’s not a single country in the world that upholds human rights.
Should Elon musk be given free food, clothes, and housing by the government?
Yes. And Elon already is wildly subsidized by the government…
So you agree that not a single country on earth, not even the communist ones, uphold human rights, correct?
You think a trillionaire should be given free food, clothes, and housing by the government. That’s absurd.
Also who is paying for all this food, clothing, and housing? What type of housing? Do you get free housing wherever you decide to move at any time? How much food do you get per week? What clothes do you get?
I am pointing out that the government already subsidized Elon. What he decides to do with that money has been largely left up to him. So yes, we the people have provided Elon with the housing and feeding of his questionable ideas in the form of Twitter.
Elon musk isn’t subsidised by the government - his companies are. His companies that employ how many tens of thousands of people?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think government subsidies should be a thing without taking part ownership for every $1 of subsidy, but that’s neither here nor there.
No one is owed free food, clothing, or housing.
Yes.
That’s absurd. Who is paying for all this free stuff? Who is making it? If you want to move state, do you get a free house there as well?
If you work a 40 hour week you should recieve food, shelter, medicine and entertainment.
I believe this is achievable thanks to the incredible innovation over the past 2 centuries.
What’s absurd is the current system. Where billionaires can extract from nations without giving anything back. It’s absurd that food for children is being cut to bomb children on the other side of the world.
What I believe may sound absurd to you. But look at our reality. It’s fucking crazy!!
Didn’t answer my question. Who is paying for it all? Who is making it? If you move do you get another free house?
The collective pays for it through tax collection. The people who already make it will still make it. If you wanted to move you would give up your current house and trade it for a different one.
Why can you not imagine a better, fairer society?
No it is absolutely not a benefit, but a bad solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist.
A more proper non propagandist name would be basic food aid.
The reasons people need food aid are typically things like not being able to get a job or being sick. Needing food aid is not a “privilege” or “benefit”, it’s a sickness of a malfunctioning society.
To call it a “benefit” is propaganda to make it seem like an evil system that cater to the rich is benevolent.
Free government provided food is a benefit. This is not even remotely debatable. It’s a benefit provided to low income earners. The middle class don’t get it. The upper class don’t get it. That would make it a benefit.
I think you’re getting stuck on the word “benefit”, hence your use of the word “privilege”. Government Benefits are not privileges. The word benefit has multiple meanings, one of which is an advantage or profit - but the other is a payment or gift made by an employer/state/etc.
Being born into a wealthy family comes with lots of benefits.
Being poor qualifies you for some government benefits.
The word benefit in those 2 sentences does not mean the same thing.
I don’t get any government benefits because I earn too much money. Free food would be a benefit.
This is a thread about the US governement taking food away from children and you’re getting hung up on semantics.
It’s good to know you’re privileged enough not to need support from the governement. Others are not so lucky.
Im “getting hung up on semantics” because the word being used incorrectly is literally the entire point of this chain of comments. Words have meanings, and “government benefits” are not the same as “privileges” or just “benefits”.
Food stamps are a government benefit. Full stop. End of story.
Ok fair. SNAP is a government benefit if you must use the technical term. It’s not the end of the story though.
I think there is some truth in the original comment of this thread. They are called government benefits to make people believe they are not entitled to them. When in reality they are your right as a human being.
Free food is not a human right.
It is. It may not be provided in many countries and that is something we should aim to fix, but as a human being you are entitled to free food.