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Jon Husted: “We literally subsidize unhealthy foods. We subsidize poor…”

Featuring: Jon Husted, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

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Published | Video Starts at 13:40

And where I'll carry that through is that, look, if we get, if we don't become healthier, because this is what happens. We literally subsidize unhealthy foods. We subsidize poor diets through the way that we run the SNAP program. there's no reason that we should have sugary drinks, candies, unhealthy snacks funded in our SNAP program. We literally set poor people up to be. To have an unhealthy diet. (13:40–13:48)

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Asserts that the SNAP program subsidizes unhealthy foods and poor diets.

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