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Propaganda Debunking

libodem

(19,288 posts)

5. The whole community benefits

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:08 PM

Jan 2013

Every food stamp dollar spent generates. $3.00 more in the community. It boosts the economy all around. Plus it helps compensate red states like mine who charge 5% tax on every food dollar spent. That is so regressive because it is such a higher percentage of the poors' total income. MF'ers.

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