Food Stamp Behavior Change Republicans seeking to cut food stamp spending via the farm bill largely worry about disincentives to work and personal responsibility. While there is little evidence of this adverse impact, retailers anticipate that a program cut would result in purchasing substitution. In other words, a cut would have little impact on food sales at WalMart, but it could reduce sales of other durable goods. More recently, attention has been paid to the geographic correlation of food stamp spending, obesity, diabetes and health care spending. Again, some argue that foods eligible for purchase under the program should be restricted, while others assert the right of the poor to make their own decisions and instead recommend edu...

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