MAHA About Bringing Nourishment to the Poor, Not Shame

To hear the usual pundits tell it, banning candy and soda from food stamps is an act of cruelty. You know, denying the “dignity” of buying a bag of Skittles with taxpayer dollars somehow strikes the professional outrage class as tyrannical.

But if you listened to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week, you heard something far more revolutionary: a clear-headed, unapologetic defense of common sense.

“For years, SNAP has used taxpayer dollars to fund soda and candy — products that fuel America’s diabetes and chronic disease epidemics,” Kennedy said at this week’s MAHA (“Make America Healthy Again”) Monday event on the National Mall.