Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? Well it wont be just Merrimack, New Hampshire. The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 Federal mandate essentially implemented price controls everywhere School lunch is served to fund free lunch, based on federal guidelines, decided on for everyone, by a few hundred Democrats, in Washington DC, in the historically significant later part of 2010.
The Democrat Congress put the USDA on point for this program, and empowered them to manage the new federal programs under the premise that it can eliminate hunger and improve nutrition. But at the end of the day this is little more than Federal meddling, income redistribution (again), and using the promise of federal grants and support to turn your public school lunch program into a taxpayer powered soup kitchen.
And not just any soup kitchen. A soup kitchen that has to jump through hoops if it wants to please the Federal Bureaucrats empowered to decide who is worthy of what handouts and if local taxpayers must pony up to meet the federal requirements.
One of those requirements is that schools start charging students (parents) more for each lunch purchased (during a recession), to satisfy the mandated price defined by the legislation, regardless of how much the lunch actually costs. Yes, the Feds are telling local school districts across the Fruited Plain what they must charge for a school lunch; whatever cost reimbursement amount the feds are willing to provide for a free lunch, regardless of what it costs us to sell a lunch to a paying student.
