House passes farm bill, eliminating Food Stamps

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And yet again, a thread that proves that if you've got a blue avatar on the Atlas Forum, you're probably a bad person. Not 100% true in all cases (King is an exception to this rule), but a good rule of thumb.

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And yet again, a thread that proves that if you've got a blue avatar on the Atlas Forum, you're probably a bad person. Not 100% true in all cases (King is an exception to this rule), but a good rule of thumb.

That is not a very nice comment. I am kind of disappointed actually.  

Nah Torie, you're alright too. I'm talking about the other ones. I mean seriously, they're either being hacks about Obamacare (the Senate and Obama aren't going to give that up, deal with it), claiming that this doesn't gut food stamps (it does), or being awfully classist (krazen).

I mean, I'm not defending the red-avatar Democrats on this forum (opebo isn't funny and frankly annoying, for example), but the blue-avatars generally aggravate me more. This isn't a fun forum to be on anymore, because there's so many of them saying awful things.

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Hasn't it been rather conclusively shown that by stimulating spending food stamps ultimately make money for the government -- that is to say, more tax revenue as a result of food stamps comes in than is spent on food stamps? Or am I confusing this with something else?

It's a similar concept to tax cuts. If people have more money in their pockets, then more money is spent on the economy which creates jobs and makes things better for the average person. The difference is that we don't actually borrow money or even use money that we have to pay for food stamps because the money used by congress belongs the people. Basically, instead of lowering taxes, you're only giving money to the less fortunate so they can eat and the money is only spent on food. I think people have the right not to starve and it helps the food and agriculture industries. I hope neither party takes me out of context by thinking I'm a socialist or suggesting something I'm not.

Hey, that's actually really reasonable. I apologize for my earlier comment, and applaud yours.

And come join us so-called "socialists", the water's fine over here!