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My brothers in Christ, the one thing this country does right is having a ton of cheap food. Shouldn't having universal lunches be a complete non-issue? I'm sure that if I ran a study, we would find that such a policy somehow even pays for itself enough to warrant a tax cut. Debates on the logistics? Sure. But making this a priority and then trying to act all sanctimonious about it? Fuck off.
Look at how much food goes to waste, for example. How the hell can universal school lunches be that expensive? I'm sure that if I was a parent, I'd probably pay more in taxes from the sales tax on food I would buy for my child's lunches than I would for being taxed to fund school lunches. Granted, I don't think there should be a sales tax on most foodstuffs, but that's a debate for another day.
When I was in school the school lunches were often perplexingly gross. Like not only do you have to pay for food, it's not even good food.
Food is cheap thanks to billions of dollars in FDA farm subsidies. So most of our food is already paid for. It could be even cheaper if farms weren't told by the government (acting on behalf of agricorps) to destroy surplus crops in order to keep food prices just high enough to be profitable.
I recently read that for every $ spent on free school lunch society saves/gains 62 $