(The Center Square) – Pop, soda, Coke – whatever someone might call it in Michigan, they may not be able to buy it with food stamps much longer.
Rep. Brad Paquette, R-Niles, recently introduced a bill that would stop the use of food stamps to buy pop by asking the federal government for a waiver to ban the purchases with SNAP benefits.
“Michigan taxpayers should not be required to fund poor food consumption,” Paquette said. “This legislation is in no way calling for low-income individuals to be stripped of the assistance they currently receive to feed themselves and their families, but we have to recognize that this assistance is a privilege and comes at the expense of taxpaying workers. We should ensure that SNAP beneficiaries are not using this program in a way that is both exorbitant and palpably harmful to themselves.”…