GOP Tries To Ban Steak And Seafood Purchases With Food Stamps
April 4, 2015
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as posted by the channelConservative lawmaker, Rick Brattin, introduces bill in Missouri that will limit what items welfare recipients can purchase with food stamps. He’s upset they have access to seafood and steak that he claims he can’t afford. Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! & Turner Classic Movies), Steve Oh and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks discuss his absurd reasoning.
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"In 2013, Fox News proudly broadcast an interview with a young food stamp recipient who claimed to be using the government benefit to purchase lobster and sushi.
"This is the way I want to live and I don’t really see anything changing," Jason Greenslate explained to Fox. “It’s free food; it’s awesome."
That story fit a longtime conservative suspicion that poor people use food stamps to purchase luxury items. Now, a Republican state lawmaker in Missouri is pushing for legislation that would stop people like Greenslate and severely limit what food stamp recipients can buy. The bill being proposed would ban the purchase with food stamps of 'cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.’”*
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