Ana Kasparian, “TYT” producer Lucas Lilieholm and Cenk debate whether there’s any benefit to cutting $16 billion from the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, over the next 10 years. Though cutting food stamps wouldn’t be Cenk’s first plan of action, he also says, “The more you give an incentive, the more you’ll get some people who are hooked on that incentive.”
Kasparian says, “I think it’s ridiculous to say that $1.50 per meal is an incentive to remain poor.”
Lilieholm suggests that anger should really be directed at corporate business. “We have a corporate welfare state where corporations are allowed to pay people nonlivable wages,” he says. “And the government has to come in and pick up the pieces to keep these families whole.”
