And it's - at least the administration's response has been, administratively, it would be absolutely impossible to administer that and to monitor in each grocery store what people are buying with their food stamps and that they think a better approach is to just have this better education.

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Clayton, who is a single mom of two, continued to rely on taxpayer assistance in the form of food stamps even after buying a new home and a new car with her winnings.

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Here is the ultimate justification for the Bloomberg soft-drink ban, not to mention his smoking ban, his transfat ban, and his unsuccessful efforts to enact a soda tax and prohibit buying high-calorie drinks with food stamps: The taxpayer is picking up the bill.

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