Wisconsin lawmaker seeks to restrict what can be bought with food stamps

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13. Here's an idea

"Bonuses" for healthy food that actually requires a bit of preparation work, and "surcharges" for crap food, or highly prepared items. You'd go through the supermarket, and leave most items alone, but it wouldn't be too hard to figure out which already relatively inexpensive foods you could further incentivize by making a family's food stamps go further.

Similarly, those highly processed items that represent paying for food processing and marketing (rather than agriculture, isn't that what was supposed to be helped by food stamps in the first place) could be penalized, requiring 25-50% more in food stamps to purchase than "normal" items. No problems with banning anything, and the families who care to eat sensibly can get a boost in their nutrition.

My guess is that the savings from the junk-fooders would more than make up for the bonuses given to thrifty families.