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Normally, leftists are all about taxing businesses as much as possible

Cap and trade, for example - massive tax on business, and everyone else.

What would be your solution?

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I wonder whether, under a socialist system, private stores have to pay a 'tax' to accept Government-Issued Food Money. I mean that's how it works, ...right?


You clearly have no understanding of the food stamp program or socialism. You really do seem to enjoy being ignorant.

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Trump wants to start charging stores to accept food stamps

So much for pro-business.

* Trump wants to charge retailers a fee for accepting food stamps as payment from the poor.
* Separately, the Trump administration is proposing $191 billion in cuts over the next decade to the food stamp program.

The White House proposal to overhaul the U.S. food stamp program — and the deep cuts it would make to benefits for the poorest households — has sparked public outrage on both sides of the aisle. But there's another change tucked into the proposal that businesses say caught them off guard — and could wind up costing them more than $2 billion.

That provision is a new fee that the White House wants to charge retailers that accept food stamps.

The proposal surprised the grocery industry, which is already fighting to block the controversial border adjustment tax on Capitol Hill. That measure would lower the cost of exports but raise the price of imports and has been widely opposed by chain retailers. Trump's food stamp fee, however, would fall squarely on supermarkets.

Grocers oppose the "flawed policy of imposing fees on food retailers in order to reduce the cost of the federal government's nutrition assistance benefits to the most needy in our society," said Leslie G. Sarasin, president of the Food Marketing Institute, which represents the industry.
Changes hit congressional opposition

But the proposed changes are already running into obstacles on Capitol Hill — even among Republicans. Rep. Michael Conaway of Texas and Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, the chairmen of the House and Senate agriculture committees, have signaled they would fight the measure.

"We need to take a look at our nutrition assistance programs to ensure that they are helping the most vulnerable in our society," they said in a statement.

"Implementing cuts to that extent are going to have stark consequences for retailers, especially in low-income communities." -Brian Lang, director of healthy food access, The Food Trust

More: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/trump-wants-to-start-charging-stores-to-accept-food-stamps.html

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If I disagree with another poster I will deliniate my disagreement with validation from reputable sources. When proved wrong I admit it and thank the poster for disabusing me of my ignorance. I have been proved wrong in less than a half dozen cases with more than 20,000 post.

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Or both.

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If I were Trump....I'd have fired that FUCK within 7 milliseconds of the comment being posted on world news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeeeezus fucking GAWD!!!

I don't give a fuck if he was speaking "on his own"....anyone in MY employ......speaks for ME!!!.

And if they do NOT speak MY line....they're fucking gone.

Another punkassmotherphoquer who has never read the constitution

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It's called a Mixed Economy, and we've been living under that system -- as has most of the world -- for over a century now.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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It's called a Mixed Economy, and we've been living under that system -- as has most of the world -- for over a century now.

Really? What businesses does the government own & run? Do you get your groceries at a government grocery store?

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It's called a Mixed Economy, and we've been living under that system -- as has most of the world -- for over a century now.

Really? What businesses does the government own & run? Do you get your groceries at a government grocery store?

Military, Postal Service, VA, Intelligence, the list goes on and on.....

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The UK and the USA have what is termed an ageing infrastructure wicked says to no-one in particular

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It's called a Mixed Economy, and we've been living under that system -- as has most of the world -- for over a century now.

Really? What businesses does the government own & run? Do you get your groceries at a government grocery store?

Military, Postal Service, VA, Intelligence, the list goes on and on.....

The police, whoever does road maintenance over there and the public school system spring to mind as well.