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Iowa has a budget of $8.5b, and 339,000 people bellow poverty line, that's counting adults too. So $40 a month for the 3 months of summer multiplied by the pop below poverty is $40.6m, or 0.04% of the budget. That is a drop in the fucking bucket, even before trying to figure out how many of those 339,000 people are children eligible under this program. For reference, 1/5th of the Iowan population are minors. And this is a federal program, so Iowa wouldn't even be paying for the full bill.
https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/projects/state-fiscal-briefs/iowa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IA/PST045222
Iowa attempts to force women to have children against their will with a 6 week ban, and restricts it by only having a small handful of providers, then denies them the resources needed to raise the children that result from said restrictions. This means unwanted, unafforded children are born to suffer. They pretend this is a good deed.
It doesn't take long to overflow the bucket by adding small drops.
Which is why only programs that do good or are vital services should be added.
Food for impoverished children easily counts for both.
Just a little bit more, it's for a good cause is not a good gauge, any program could be shoehorned into those criteria.
It's a lunch program for summer.
It's 40 million dollars
For children
Saying "for children" doesn't make money appear
Didn't say it did.
Than that point is irrelevant.
Nope
Yup
Tax churches.
No, I think it's fucking grotesque how much yall fetishize starving children.
What a comeback
Yawn
Children do not starve in our country. If you disagree I need a photograph of a starving child.
I am sick of people trying to perpetuate the myth that people starve in the United States. They do not.
I'm not going to aim for made up goal posts that make no sense.
Guess we aren't allowed to do literally anything then. Roads are just inherently bad apparently. Fuck the kids, let em starve am I right? It is true evil to ask a citizen for a fraction of a cent to feed impoverished children.
Nope. The right response to that is to go beyond intentions to an understanding of the problem.