Foodstamps Help You Eat Right. . . .

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@JackCuyler

food stamps must cause obesity

Ceteris paribus, yes. The logic is painfully simple.

• Food subsidy → more food consumption
• More food consumption → more calories consumed
• More calories consumed → more obesity

Clayton -

Though I rarely disgree with you, this one is a bit over-generalized. It really depends on what foods are subsidized versus the overall available choices.

• Healthy, low calorie food subsidies will, ceteris paribus, lead to an increase in healthy food consumption.
• An increase in healthy food consumption may lead to a decrease in unhealthy food consumption.
• This change in consumption may lead to a decrease in calories consumed.
• A decrease in calories consumed leads to less obesity.

A subsidy on tofu and rice cakes will most likely not lead to an increase in obesity, ceteris paribus.

Clayton is right. I see people buying shit food on food stamps. Watermelon, fried chicken, grape soda, diapers, alcohol . . . .