This is 100% not a straw man. Poor people do stupid shit to fuck up their health and waste public money all the time. I know them - they’re my family. The only problem is that they aren’t quite poor enough to be on food stamps, despite trying their damnedest to get there. And so they keep eating themselves to an early grave, because they are stupid motherfuckers who refuse to accept reality or change in any way.
I think you’re beating up a straw man here….
Welfare is a couple hundred dollars at most, usually much less than that.
Stop worrying about what everyone else is eating and worry about yourself.
If you want to make products healthier on a larger scale, then pass regulations concerning toxic chemicals and labeling for food products.
Limiting people in literal poverty from having a lollipop or a candy bar with their money is not the answer.
This is 100% not a straw man. Poor people do stupid shit to fuck up their health and waste public money all the time. I know them - they’re my family. The only problem is that they aren’t quite poor enough to be on food stamps, despite trying their damnedest to get there. And so they keep eating themselves to an early grave, because they are stupid motherfuckers who refuse to accept reality or change in any way.
You can be a totalitarian in your imagination I guess.