Colorado is one of nine states offering public school students free breakfast and lunch. Focus on the Family hopes the state’s citizens will vote today to eliminate the program.
“There is a big difference between providing and encouraging the availability of nutritious foods in schools and expecting taxpayers to fund it all,” wrote Paul Batura, a Focus vice president, in his article, “Should Taxpayers Be Paying for Students’ Breakfast and Lunch?”
Batura linked free meal programs to President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” programs, “which significantly expanded and began normalizing and destigmatizing the distribution of government aid.”…