SB1505 would require the Department of Human Services to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds for the purpose of alleviating “childhood hunger.”
The Senate failed to pass SB1505 on April 9, 2024, by a vote of 15 to 15. We have assigned pluses to the noes because feeding children is not the role of government—rather, it is the responsibility of parents or family members. There exists no “right to food” apart from a person working and earning it themselves or having received it privately and voluntarily from someone else. Taxation in the name of “social welfare” is neither just nor charitable. “Public assistance benefits” rely on the unconstitutional and discriminatory use of federal and state taxpayer money on behalf of some citizens (particularly those who have little or no tax liability) at the expense of others, resulting in more debt, dependency, and poverty. Nothing in Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the spending of federal funds for such purposes.