Badtux the Snarky PenguinJun 20, 2023

At the rural school district I last worked at, we had 1500 students, of whom 1,000 were free lunch and 500 were not. The cost of personnel (an entire department!), computers, and software for vetting students to make sure those 500 didn't get free lunch cost more than the cost of simply feeding them, already.

The GOP jihad about preventing those 500 from getting free lunch is not about taxes or expense, it's about being mean to children. #gop #antichild #school #lunch #meanness

Show threadTracy Hall

@badtux

INEVITABLY, any "means-tested" benefit is FAR less expensive and FAR more efficient to simply give the benefit to everyone, and claw it back at tax time. If at all.

Jun 20, 2023 at 6:23pmWeb
Show threadUrzlJun 20, 2023

@video_manager @badtux We're not giving away Lamborghinis, we're giving children subsistence-level sustenance.

In all reality we could afford to feed all the adults too, free riders and all, without it being practical to bother auditing the program.