The House of Representatives recently
voted to cut
the “food stamp program by $39 billion over the next 10 years, while
reforming the program to tighten eligibility and emphasize the importance of
work.” As the Cato Institute’s Michael
Tanner notes, the ”outcry among congressional” liberals and administration
officials in response to the vote ”is just plain silly given how modest” the
cuts are. As he observes,
these cuts “simply trim around the edges of the program,” which has mushroomed
from $18 billion to $82 billion since 2000. As he points out, far from imposing
draconian cuts, the House vote leaves spending at historically high levels, and
merely curbs recent abuses and egregious loopholes that have caused costs to
explode over the last few years:….To Read More…..
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