Az Republicans follow lead of RFK Jr. with effort to ban SNAP users from buying soda, candy https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020525_snap_nutrition/az-republicans-follow-lead-rfk-jr-with-effort-ban-snap-users-from-buying-soda-candy/
Arizona Republicans want to ban the use of federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds to purchase candy and soda, but critics say their overly-broad proposal would bar low-income families from buying things like flavored water and granola bars.
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@TucsonSentinel Granola bars are pure sugar, this is a great step in fighting obesity in the US, it could have been done better in general by simply adding a 10% sugar tax on any product that by volume contains more than x% of sugar
