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re: New Utah law removes soft drinks from SNAP-eligible purchases
Posted on 12/30/25 at 7:40 pm to Lonnie Utah
Posted on 12/30/25 at 7:40 pm to Lonnie Utah
didn't think there was any blacks in Utah
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Posted on 12/30/25 at 7:43 pm to BigD45
You want extra wives or Coca-Cola?
Posted on 12/30/25 at 7:50 pm to Lonnie Utah
That's f'ed up. What do they expect them to drink, real drinks?
Posted on 12/30/25 at 8:53 pm to BigDropper
To be fair, I don't think they can get Woodford with SNAP, either.
Posted on 12/30/25 at 9:26 pm to Lonnie Utah
I thought RFK jr already banned this nationwide
Posted on 12/30/25 at 9:44 pm to Lonnie Utah
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I would imagine that Utah has one of the lowest rates of SNAP usage nationally.
You'd be right. At 4.8%, utah has the lowest snap utilization in the country. Nationwide average is around 12%.
I just read an article that pushed higher than 12%, but I am not sure of the time frame.
quote:https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/opinion/false-refugee-study-used-by-dems-to-justify-open-borders-and-massive-spending/
Food stamp (SNAP) participation, for example, stands at 15.5% nationwide but rises to 21.4% among refugees.
Medicaid and CHIP enrollment shows a similar pattern: 17.2% of Americans participate, compared with 23.6% of refugees or 26.5% when US-born children of refugees are included.
Disparities are even more pronounced in other programs. Usage of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the cash welfare program for the elderly and disabled, is nearly three times higher among refugees and asylees than among the general population (7.3% versus 2.6%).
Housing assistance participation more than doubles, rising from 3.3% nationally to 7.5% for refugees. Child Tax Credit usage likewise doubles, increasing from 6.2% to 12.9%.
Posted on 12/30/25 at 9:58 pm to Lonnie Utah
Well they have more money to spend on snow crabs and birthday cakes for her kids.
Posted on 12/30/25 at 10:03 pm to real turf fan
ComplicatioNz and raysciss
Posted on 12/30/25 at 10:08 pm to Lonnie Utah
I thought that Kennedy guy was going to do this federally.
Posted on 12/30/25 at 10:20 pm to Lonnie Utah
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A new law passed by the Utah legislature earlier this year takes effect on Jan. 1, 2026, preventing those on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from using those funds to buy sugary carbonated drinks.
Just want to clarify, there is no law banning soft drinks. The bill they signed required the State to submit a waiver request to the Federal Government to exclude soft drinks from eligible purchases in Utah.
Feds control SNAP. States have to ask permission via waiver to restrict certain items.
Authorizing State departments to submit a waiver can also be done via Executive Order.
Posted on 12/30/25 at 10:21 pm to Lonnie Utah
Pretty ironic. Considering they eat more Jello than any other state by far
Posted on 12/30/25 at 11:21 pm to Lonnie Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — At the start of the new year, Utahns will no longer be able to use SNAP benefits to buy soft drinks. A new law passed by the Utah legislature earlier this year takes effect on Jan. 1, 2026, preventing those on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from using those funds to buy sugary carbonated drinks.
I just hope I don’t see any farmers buying soft drinks with that $13 billion we just gave them.
Posted on 12/30/25 at 11:49 pm to Lonnie Utah
“The privilege to be able to sit there and be okay with some child not getting to drink soft drinks and experience the joy of being a child because their parents are working poor due to this capitalistic hellhole”- some r/Utah poster, probably.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Most of these posters were from NOLA, north BR, Shreveport, etc.
4cubbies raises hand but it is downright systematic racism targeting brown people and now what are they supposed to drink?
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:03 am to Marfa
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didn't think there was any blacks in Utah
Like 11 of them. Utah Jazz duh
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:06 am to Lonnie Utah
wow
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 6:27 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:10 am to Allister Fiend
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Always thought it stupid that Mormons ban coffee or tea but dont you dare take their Dr Pepper.
Doesn’t the Mormon church own a bunch of stock in Coca Cola?
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:23 am to Lonnie Utah
Good on Utah. No bigger sign of the American corporate overlord system than public subsidies for poor people to mainline high fructose corn syrup.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:43 am to Lonnie Utah
SNAP recipients should only receive the basics: milk, water, rice, beans, and one type of meat. That's it.
You want something else? Go get a job and pay for it.
You want something else? Go get a job and pay for it.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 3:09 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The last time a thread like this was started, a bunch of people came into the thread to claim it is “big govt” and “anti-freedom” to support restrictions like this. Most of these posters were from NOLA, north BR, Shreveport, etc.
I remember the outrage on here around the discussion on New York wanting to limit the sizes of sugary drinks. It was almost unanimous against it. I bet most of those in that thread are on the fat shot now and bitching about the costs of health insurance.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 3:25 am
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