Reply #134: Here is what the original debate was about:

[Jmaxfie1]

Would it be better to receive:

1. $300 dollars a month with restrictions on what one buys?
or
2. $200 dollars a month with no restrictions?

The original question posed is about a funding problem particularly in Red States. You can tell a Republican State Congress all you want about how food stamps are a right and people should get to do what they want with it. You aren't going to receive a one cent increase. If you get the Big Farm PACs behind you, you probably could get an increase since so much of their money goes to Republicans. In Red States it is an either or option. At first I was for option 1 but have pretty much changed my mind. Now I am for, if it could some how be set-up a pilot program called say, The Food Choice program. Basically people could opted in to option 1, it would not be mandatory.