Missouri is right in line with Kansas on poor-shaming anyone with a need for an EBT card.

No steak or fish, you poors—

The bill being proposed would ban the purchase with food stamps of “cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.”
“The intention of the bill is to get the food stamp program back to it’s original intent, which is nutrition assistance,” said Rick Brattin, the representative who is sponsoring the proposed legislation.

It must be all those mysterious crab legs and filet mignon buyers the Republicans are always seeing at their grocery stores that prompted it. Ah, yes:

“I have seen people purchasing filet mignons and crab legs with their EBT cards,” he said. “When I can’t afford it on my pay, I don’t want people on the taxpayer’s dime to afford those kinds of foods either.”

dailykos.com

Poor little Ricky Brattin—so sad that he can’t afford surf and turf—maybe he should start a gofundme page to help out.

He’s also the braintrust who wants women to get permission for their impregnators before having an abortion.

he would make an exception for victims of rape, but women would have to prove that a rape had actually occurred.

“So you couldn’t just go and say, ‘Oh yeah, I was raped,’ and get an abortion,” he said. “It has to be a legitimate rape.”

kansascity.com

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Republicans don’t simply have differences of opinion about policy—they are flat out mean, spiteful, miserable people.