45% of voters take a brave stance against child hunger

A ballot measure to create a universal free school meals program by reducing tax breaks for the wealthiest residents in Colorado has easily passed after federal lawmakers allowed a universal free lunch program to expire earlier this year.

Proposition FF has officially passed, according to a call by The Associated Press on Wednesday, with about 55 percent of voters in favor and 45 percent against with 88 percent of the vote in, per the New York Times.

The Healthy School Meals for All program will raise $100 million a year to provide and pay for meals in public schools, which advocates say will be crucial in lessening the burden of food insecurity for tens of thousands of students across the state.

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43 points

45 percent voting against

:mao-aggro-shining:

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18 points

So much of this country is Resentment Voters.

Elections now, and possibly always have been when the oligarchs and their money anoint and appoint candidacies, voting for the lesser evil. Greatest Democracy Money Can Buy™.

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I think the most important thing liberal democracy does is give you a list of people who should be disenfranchised with extreme prejudice.

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20 points

There are people in my life who have told me they automatically vote no on anything that involves increasing budgets, even bonds to build a library.

Literally what’s the point of liberal democracy when average American voter is like that

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14 points

Trillions of dollars of propaganda and austerity do wonders on the American voter brain.

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9 points

no, the problem is they give you the wrong list on purpose.

none of the fuckers and their fascist dogs are on it somehow…

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3 points

Govt representative votes are public record too tbf

The porky funding and CIA shit is where they get secretive, which says a lot about who they consider valuable enough to protect

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27 points

Real embarrassed soon to be millionaires endorse starving children versus paying some taxes hours.

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