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If the provided lunch is any good, then yes, a good thing. Could some families afford the cost and time of providing a better 2-4 course lunch every day? Sure, but most won’t.
As a child, I had a wide array of food allergies, so doctors put me on a so-called rotation diet. I could only be exposed to certain food items once every 4 days. Day 1 of the cycle allowed wheat and rye, so on the other days, I could not eat any dish with sauce bound with wheat flour. (My family used carob seed flour instead.) Day 2 was potatoes, day 3 was corn, day 4 was rice. (Those were the most significant items…
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Why not fine them instead? Before you say, not everyone can afford XYZ fine. I would fully support a income based proportional fine system in the US. What i Don't support is putting someone in jail because they can't afford a lawyer.
What do you do about people with no money? With BART especially, you can watch the same person that jumped the gate light up a meth pipe in the back of the train car. BART police will kick them off the train if they get caught but can't really do much else since the city doesn't really prosecute for drug offenses. If you look at the arrest records, you see the same people arrested day after day. They don't have any m…