LePage to go ahead with food stamp junk food ban without federal OK

[Midnight Writer]

5. These "junk food bans" are intended to discourage food stamp use and acceptance.

Scott Walker and the Republicans in Wisconsin just pulled a similar stunt.

By making the program so complicated (for example, a five pound bag of potatoes is eligible, a ten pound bag is not) that folk will have trouble figuring out the ever shifting rules and that stores will no longer accept them.

This is a damn shame, because the food stamp program benefits not only the needy, but the farmers, producers and stores that rely on consumption.