Why should all citizens get a certain amount of free food from the government to supplement what they can buy on their own? Thatβs the sort of stupid commie thing they do in *checks notes* the ancient Roman republic.
Yeah Rome had a free grain and sometimes bread ration program for its citizens, including the very poor ones. Surprise! Government handouts arenβt a new concept!
Itβs crazy watching people say that something is gonna ruin society when weβve been doing it in some form or another for thousands of years and people generally like it when it happens.
Even places that didnβt regularly provide their people with free food often had emergency stores in case of famine or natural disaster that they distributed to people like in ancient China.
Also are you against government loans to farmers? Like they had in *checks notes* feudal Japan?
TIL America doesn't even have food distribution
We have SNAP
Ooh what's that?
Supplemental nutrition assistance program. It gives low income households a certain amount of money on a card each month that can only be used at grocery stores. Some homeless people can also get one that works at fast food restaurants.
Personally I think that everyone should get a SNAP card but that idea is too radical for a lot of people unfortunately.
We also have straight up food distributions in the US! Back when I was super broke, we used to look up distributions of food boxes where you would line up in cars at like an empty fairgrounds and then people would load up boxes of like, fresh fruit, vegetables, cheese and milk, and sometimes even meat. No income requirements, just come and get a box per household. I even went to one that had hygiene and cleaning supplies in the box!
I think they were called food distribution boxes or something like that. I found them following my local food bank on social media.
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