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One in 8 households experienced food insecurity at some point.

So that’s $24 per person experiencing food insecurity. So a couple big mac meals.

The point being that a billion dollars is mostly nothing for a population of 330 million.

Social security spent 1.4 trillion last year.

“We shouldn’t do this thing, we should increase social program spending by 0.06% instead!” is not a good argument.

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I don't know, if you spend $20k per person feeding them for a year, that one billion can feed 50,000 people.

We shouldn't feed 50,000 people and do this other thing instead should probably have a very strong argument.

Yeah, we spent ~$150 billion in 2023 on national feeding-people programs. SNAP, WIC, and others. Any single person earning less than $1,133 per month gets SNAP (modern day food stamps), higher for larger household sizes.

42 million Americans get SNAP benefits (additional people in other programs)

Once again, "let's increase this existing program by 0.1%!" is not a very convincing argument.

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