Lots of reasons: 1. This law is the same logic as the sugar tax. If you oppose the soda/juice tax than you should also oppose this. 2. How are you going to define "junk food"? Answer: you can't. Someone somewhere is going to find a way to argue that what you deem as junk food isn't really junk food. There is an entire lobbyist industry dedicated to this. They will find ways to repackage and relabel things to skirt the system. In the end it will be a transfer of taxpayer wealth not to people who need to eat, but lobbyist and food package designers. Case in point, you aren't supposed to buy convenience foods with EBT. Go into any Kroger and what do you see? Convenience foods chilled with the EBT eligible sticker slapped on it. 3. They already tried imposing government mandated healthy eating by overhauling the school lunch program. They put "healthier" options in front of kids and the kids chose not to eat it. Instead they created "black markets" for the food they did want 4. EBT abuse is already rampet. You see cases all the time of shop owners accepting food stamps for items not covered, but at exorbitant prices. This won't be any different So, Basically for all the same reasons 2Aers use to defend why banning guns won't work and all the reasons stoners advocate why banning pot won't work. It's not solving the issue. Also, three years ago MY family was on food stamps. My husband had cancer and we were financially ruined. I KNOW what it's like to be on food stamps. 90% of the bitching on here is nonsense.