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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction – and that may be proven true if a plan involving food stamps becomes reality. Still, OneNewsNow found someone who likes the proposed approach.

There’s no question the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka food stamps, is past its expiration date for reform.

"Twenty states have sued the Trump administration asserting that the tax reform law, which eliminates the Affordable Care Act's mandate to have health insurance, makes Obamacare unconstitutional," said Merrill Matthews. "It's a brilliant argument. 

"I think it has merit for at least discussion," responds Dr. Merrill Matthews of The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI). He says the current SNAP program allows recipients to choose from a wide selection of food.

Merrill Matthews, a scholar with the Irving, Texas-based Institute for Policy Innovation, a conservative think tank, contends that the president’s approach has merit and should at least be tried as a pilot program in some states.

Republicans took a huge step by ending ObamaCare’s onerous mandate. But the freedom from having to buy expensive, government-approved coverage doesn’t mean consumers have the freedom to buy what they want and need.

The city must resist the call for an enormous new investment of taxpayer dollars to facilitate these private entrepreneurial ventures.

Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act stands as the most sweeping and comprehensive tax reform in the past 30 years. Tom Giovanetti, president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, a public policy research organization, writes, “President Trump has already done more to grow the U.S. economy than the last four presidents and 28 years combined.” 

If ever a federal program had outlived its usefulness, it’s the government’s support for ethanol.

The politicization, cronyism and bureaucracy of public pension management is a recipe for disaster.