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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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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ORIGINAL: itsSIRtou

of course, the people who voted for him never paid much attention...

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ORIGINAL: itsSIRtou

I remember the Reagan administration doing not much different to cut costs, the biggest ridicule came when they tried to claim ketchup packets as a vegetable serving in school lunches.

lets see what rump pulls out his ass just as stupid..... u know its coming.

tax cuts for the wealthy seems always a trigger for cutting food to children.

of course, the people who voted for him never paid much attention to tax cut history or they'd of thought differently.

The only thing that "trickles down" to the lower classes are higher prices and the wealthy's tax burden.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

FR to the OP. So, basically, he's once again screwing the people who voted for him.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Whatever the answers, it's still not a pro-business move: it's pushing government expenses onto business.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Whatever the answers, it's still not a pro-business move: it's pushing government expenses onto business.

Why not? Businesses are pushing their expenses onto government.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Whatever the answers, it's still not a pro-business move: it's pushing government expenses onto business.

Why not? Businesses are pushing their expenses onto government.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Whatever the answers, it's still not a pro-business move: it's pushing government expenses onto business.

Why not? Businesses are pushing their expenses onto government.

Whichever way you want to spin this, it remains an anti-business move.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Continue to be 14.5% of the grocery industry?