Washington Democrats love to grow government and broaden dependency on government programs. And run massive budget deficits, which will eventually sink the U.S. Dollar and bring on a forced transition into a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) system.
Washington Republicans, meanwhile, love to give lip service to controlling spending and getting the massive federal deficits back under control – but, shamefully, have no politically feasible, economically viable plan to present to the voting public.
Main Street America Republicans do have a plan…
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Biden’s Free Lunch for Rich Kids – WSJ
The USDA prepares to feed more schoolchildren year-round, even if their parents make six figures.
By Sam Adolphsen and Paige Terryberry | March 26, 2024 4:06 pm ETn
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but the Biden administration insists otherwise. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to provide free lunches to children—including many whose parents earn six-figure incomes—year-round. New research from our organization finds that up to 72% of America’s some 49 million public-school students could soon be on the taxpayer dole.
As usual, this story begins with a supposedly temporary program. As schools closed in 2020, Congress allowed states to send extra payments to families whose children qualified for free and reduced-price school lunches. The following year, it added summer payments to the package, depositing money directly onto families’ electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, cards, which are used for food stamps. Finally, in December 2022, Congress made this “Summer EBT” program permanent—beginning in mid-2024. The USDA would automatically enroll millions of families and create a separate, means-tested application process for others.
The White House is now exceeding what Congress intended. In September 2023, the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service finalized a rule that expands the number of students who qualify for reduced lunches during the school year. If a mere 25% of a public school’s students meet the requirements, 100% of its students will be eligible to receive the benefit. The rule imposes no income limits, meaning middle- and upper-class children will get subsidized meals.
The Biden administration also is preparing to add the summer months to the expansion. On Dec. 29, 2023, the Food and Nutrition Service quietly solicited feedback on the difficulty of administering Summer EBT applications—likely hinting that it intends to abandon the applications and return to the pandemic-era policy of depositing taxpayer funds into EBT accounts, regardless of need.
According to our research, as many as 50% more public-school students will be eligible for taxpayer help during the school year. If the administration abandons Summer EBT applications and income standards, these students will automatically receive summer payments, too. If their families have EBT cards, they’ll likely receive monthly direct deposits; if not, they’ll presumably receive a card in the mail.
The administration is selling the expansion as a way to fight child hunger, especially in low-income communities. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declared in January that “no child in this country should go hungry” or “lose access to nutritious school meals during the summer months.” But the federal government already runs multiple programs for low-income students, including the Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option.
In classic Washington fashion, the more-tailored summer food programs will continue to exist. The feds, meanwhile, will throw more taxpayer money at the same population while sweeping a larger share of Americans onto the government dole. The exact cost of Summer EBT isn’t yet known but will almost certainly run into the billions. The cost of expanded school lunches for middle- and upper-class children will add billions more.
Short of a new administration, court intervention or act of Congress, there’s no way to roll back the school-year welfare expansion. But states can refuse to participate in Summer EBT, and so far 13 haven’t opted in for this summer. The Biden administration—backed by an army of activists and a gullible media—is trying to browbeat them into submission. Nebraska reversed course last month, joining the program after previously steering clear.
Republican leaders fear being tarred as heartless monsters who want poor children to starve, but this handout would flow to the well-off. The real stakes are stopping welfare that taxpayers can’t afford and families don’t need.
Mr. Adolphsen is policy director and Ms. Terryberry a senior research fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability.
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The Main Street America Republicans’ plan:
1. Lifts families up out of the mire of ‘government-dependency’ programs, eliminates debt, and restores financial security for millions of America’s hard-working, tax-paying U.S. citizens who wish to be free to manage their own lives;
2. Generates massive $112.6 billion federal budget surpluses each of the first five years of activation – and pays for itself entirely over the succeeding 10-15 year period – thereby protecting the integrity of the U.S. Dollar, slowing inflation to a trickle, and cancelling the forced transition into a CBDC system;
3. Re-ignites free market dynamics, economic liberty, and a powerful new long-term economic growth cycle.
The Leviticus 25 Plan is a dynamic economic initiative providing direct liquidity benefits for American families, while at the same time scaling back the role of government in managing and controlling the affairs of citizens. It is a comprehensive plan with long-term economic and social benefits for citizens and government.
The inspiration for this plan is based upon Biblical principles set forth in the Book of Leviticus, principles tendering direct economic liberties to the people.
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