Link: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/nyregion/free-lunch-new-york-city-schools.html?_r=0&referer=https://t.co/IGujgTPtNe?amp=1
And the rest of NY state pays for the bill of feeding 1.1 million childen, many of whose parents already get full SNAP + WIC benefits… If they’re feeding the school kids M-F for Lunch (or Lunch & Breakfast) those parents who receive food stamps to support their children’s diet - should lose a proportionate amount of their kid’s food benefit. Sorry but that’s how the state pays for some of it.
Can y'all imagine being this angry/annoyed by children being fed?
^^^ ONLY a sad and miserable person would say or post something like that.
@sarcasmsuitsme please jump off a bridge
I can totally imagine someone being pissed off that a smidgen of their tax dollars goes to feed hungry kids. They’re the same people upset that they have to pay taxes to build bridges they’re not using, or mass transit they don’t take. Because all they can think about is themselves and their immediate gratification, not the larger community or the longer term influence on their own lives.
(example: the bridge you help maintain might bring the ambulance to save your life. The mass transit you help build may speed that ambulance by reducing traffic jams. The kid you help feed today may be the paramedic in that ambulance coming to save your life, in five years. etc)
There’s a name for people who don’t want to contribute to the greater social construct. We call them selfish gits. Or, in the vernacular of my grandparents, an unmensch.
Considering that only $3 of my taxes each year go to all of our social programs, i am happy to give that $3.
What I want BACK are the $2,000 of my taxes that go each year to corporate subsidies for companies that make billions, offshore jobs and move their HQ’s to other countries to hide their income from taxes.
and by the way, SNAP and WIC benefits are given to people who make so little, and it doesn’t pay for everything, it’s only a subsidy. This is to try and make up for wages that haven’t increased in 40 years.
Most families who benefit are from parents who work and live in rural areas as well as cities, and most recipients are WHITE. Because when you scratch those stereotypes of ‘undeserving’ you’ll find someone who is intolerant, racist, and sexist.
