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Take this question: Should you be able to use food stamps to buy things like Coke and Snickers? For most taxpayers who don’t receive food stamps, the reflexive answer is probably no. But as a recent Bloomberg article points out, the whole debate is creating strange bedfellows. Think: The soda and …
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