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Conservatives literally believe feeding kids will spoil them.[1]

1 - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/free-lunch-doesnt-sp...

Every conservative I've ever met has been a member of a church that falls over itself to provide food to needy families as often as possible.

This is a highly partisan and very underhanded article. It posits that "Conservatives" believe this, yet the article's source is: "According to one school-board member, children could “become spoiled.”".

Literally one school-board member said this, and now a broad brush is being used to insinuate that this is a widely held conservative viewpoint. Then they decided to trot out an "expert" in order to debunk this one person's opinion.

The school board declined funds (that were already allocated by the federal government) to feed their kids, and as far as I could tell, no other reason was given.

But still, a sample size of _one_.

Additional information was that free lunch applications were falling and food was being wasted. They still had a means-based program for those in need. So they didn't think they needed the program. They have since restarted the program (because hey, why turn down free money).

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