Increasing Access to "Food Stamps"

HB5003 streamlines cross-enrollment of children in federal and state “food and nutrition” assistance programs.

The House passed HB5003 on April 30, 2024, by a vote of 149 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because the responsibility for feeding children belongs to parents or family members, not the government. There exists no “right to food” apart from a person working and earning it themselves or having received it privately and voluntarily from someone else. Taxation in the name of “social welfare” is neither just nor charitable. Nothing in Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution authorizes either the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).