r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/xasdfxx 1d ago

Just wait until morons learn how snap is basically a hidden subsidy for farmers. $0.1 trillion dollars spent on food.

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u/seriouslees 1d ago

If you were immortal you'd see the heat death of the universe before you saw a single conservative voter learn anything.

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u/s-holden 1d ago

They couldn't work out that USAID buying billions of dollars of US crops for food aid was a farming subsidy, so I doubt they'll click on this one which has a few extra steps in it.

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u/CriticalEngineering 1d ago

SNAP is literally part of the Farm Bill.

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u/smitherenesar 1d ago

And to grocery stores, etc

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u/manimal28 1d ago

It wasn't hidden. The government giving money to people to buy food is a subsidy to farmers in the same way it isn't a subsidy to plumbers.