Thursday, February 26, 2009

Kentucky Fried Teeth

Kentucky blogger Cyberhillbilly picked up on an effort to stop subsidizing purchases of soft drinks with food stamp money:

"Maybe it's time Kentucky looked at banning the soda from being purchased via food stamps. The American Dental Association has already proposed a ban nationwide. Apparently such an effort would require a federal waiver, but we could at least seek such a course."

Here's more.

One might think Gov. Steve Beshear and friends could take a break from counting the billions of dollars in new federal money they have coming in to get this done quickly.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm still wondering why soda/soft drinks are allowed to be purchased with food stamps in the first place. Aren't food stamps supposed to be for buying only healthy food??

Anonymous said...

I bought my wife an over priced heart shaped box of chocolates at Rite Aid for Valentine's day. And the receipt had a denotation showing the chocolates were Food Stamp eligible too.