A question regarding the Child Nutrition Bill? -
01-02-2009, 01:09 AM
How does this bill infringe on people's rights? There doesn't seem to be a mandate that kids aren't allowed to bring certain foods from home, just that the schools themselves aren't allowed to sell certain things.
If it's a matter of State's rights that you're concerned with, that's one thing. But as long as we're going to have the federal government collecting money and distributing it to schools, doesn't it make sense to provide some guidelines on how that money is to be spent? As long as any government is collecting money and distributing it to schools, does it really make sense for that money to help underwrite the cost of making kids fatter? Is it really a restriction on civil liberties to say that no, taxpayers will not be paying for junk food?
These are not actual answers.
The first three, that is.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the bill is actually paying for food, right? The $4.5 billion price tag seems downright impossible as the result of handing down some new regulations.
My concern with this question is just about how regulating what schools sell to kids is somehow infringing on our rights.
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