Food stamps to be cut... To pay NFL's taxes?

Center on Budget & Policy Priorities - As policymakers deliberate over the "fiscal cliff" and calls are coming from some quarters for major cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), they should take this into account:  SNAP benefits are already scheduled to fall next November 1, when the 2009 Recovery Act's temporary benefits boost ends.  Any further cuts would come on top of these significant reductions and would cause further hardship.

Benefits will decline for every SNAP household.  For families of three, the cut likely will be $25 to $30 a month — $300 to $360 a year.

That's a serious loss, especially in light of the very low size of basic SNAP benefits.  Without the Recovery Act's boost, SNAP benefits average only about $1.30 per person per meal.  Nutrition experts have long held that these levels are inadequate to meet families' basic food needs.

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HAASE - Our nation can not afford to continue to support our growing welfare programs in America, but can let the NFL and some of the most profitable corporations in the world claim welfare status to take a pass on paying taxes?

Anyone else have a problem with this?

http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/21414-is-nfls-tax-exempt-status-corporate-welfare.html

Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs

Time Magazine, Vol. 152 No. 19

About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.

Before we look at the details, a heartfelt plea from the Save the CEO's Charitable Trust:

There's so much suffering in the world. It can all get pretty overwhelming sometimes. Consider, for a moment the sorrow in the eyes of a CEO who's just found out that his end-of-year bonus is only going to be a paltry $2.3 million.

"It felt like a slap in the face. Imagine what it would feel like just before Christmas to find out that you're going to be forced to scrape by on your standard $8.4 million compensation package alone. Imagine what is was like to have to look into my daughter's face and tell her that I couldn't afford to both buy her a dollar sign shaped island and hire someone to chew her food from now on, too. To put her in that situation of having to choose… She's only a child for God's sake."

It doesn't have to be this way. Thanks to federal subsidies from taxpayers like you, CEO's like G. Allen Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland was able to take home almost $14 million in executive compensation last year. But he's one of the lucky ones. There are still corporations out there that actually have to provide goods and services to their consumers in order to survive. They need your help.

For just $93 billion a year the federal government is able to provide a better life for these CEO's and their families. That's less than the cost of 240 million cups of coffee a day. Won't you help a needy corporation today?

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