Even though I am very pro capitalist. I think there should be food ration for everyone which they may or may not choose to take. You will still have to work hard to get fancy foods or yacht.
But for basic foods you don't need to worry. People pay a lot of taxes anyways. And a part of it should go making sure people don't need about food.
That they have a safety net much like parents if something their job or business were to go wrong. I think they will feel much free er.
Life doesn't owe you anything. We already have a safety net for people who are physically or mentally incapable of working - everyone else needs to work for their own survival. There are already FAR too many people who aren't. Are you aware that 46% of the US population pays ZERO income taxes, yet these same people consume more than 60% of payouts. That's already absurd.
The US currently has a MASSIVE amount of Disability fraud, for example. So many people claim that they can't work a job because they have anxiety or emotional distress or some unspecified pain. I've been in customer homes where they were talking to an adult child about how to go about getting Disability, so they could be like the other people in the family, where THREE GENERATIONS of adults were all on Disability, so no one worked. They knew which doctors to go to and what to say to get their paperwork signed off. Then, free money forever, at the expensive of taxpayers.
There is also already charities.
No, we don't need anymore handouts, we need more responsible people who take care of themselves.
I find the idea that people should struggle for the necessities of life to be absurd. We are no longer cavemen and we should act like it. I think that basic necessities such as food, water, healthcare and shelter should be a natural right to people at the bare minimum.
can't say giving out food rations are going to be the best way to accomplish this but its at least A way rather than the dysfunctional system we have today.
Each year an estimated 50 million tonnes of farmed fruit and vegetables grown in Europe is discarded for being the wrong size or misshapen. The UK alone is responsible for over 4million tonnes of edible vegetables being discarded. Given you already pay taxes to help food production I don't think it's unfair or unreasonable to have a universal food package of raw ingredients. It wouldn't effect the economy much because people would still buy processed food. A good example is fish, supermarket often have a large display of fresh fish yet that's all it is, an advertising gimmick. Little is actually sold and most gets binned. Most people buy their fish frozen as fish fingers and fish pies etc.
Free food for everyone, regardless of bootstraps?
Fuckin communist.
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Blacks get free school lunch, SNAP benefits, EBT, and prison meals at the highest rates of any racial demographic. They also have the highest rates of obesity of any racial demographic which contributes to a large array of disease states which ultimately leads to them having the lowest life expectancy of any race… Government food management seems to have poor results...
Don't we pretty much already have it? What do you think WIC is? What do you think school lunch is? Food stamps?
🙄 The idea that we don't already have enough programs to help people through poverty, and with food specifically.
I like how people state a position and then argue it’s complete opposite. This is becoming more of a thing as the rate at which words no longer have meaning is accelerating or it is less safe to take and hold a position.
You are fucking stupid, then.
Universal income is something more doable than "universal food".
It wouldn't help. Some people would just hoard it, some would eat it and sme would sell or exchange it for material things. That's why communism doesn't work. We all make choices depending on our wants or needs
The only way it would work is that the go ernment can not have any control/say in the implementation or operation s of such a program. They screw up wet dreams.
It's a nice idea, but they'd find SOME way to screw it up. We enough troubles with EBT as it is.
I think those democrats should get off their universal basic asses and find a universal basic job, lol !
Totally against. Government handouts aren’t help, they’re control.
I think it looks disgusting. I've had better food in hospital.
I have been talking about doing this for years
Yes lets call it Soylent Green
Shelters are enough
Not following 🤷🏻♂️
You’re not a capitalist
There are programs for this already.
This would make you a communist
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