1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

As your constituent who depends on SNAP, I urge you to restore SNAP funding and to protect and strengthen food benefits generally. In a nation with so much wealth, no one should be going hungry because we can do better by our people. Traditionally as you know SNAP funding is attached to the farm bill in some sort of ancient bipartisan compromise. Apparently subsidies for Big Agriculture are accompanied by subsidies for children, people with disabilities, and other people facing the challenges of poverty, usually caused by insufficient wages or insufficient medical research. It would be extraordinarily obnoxious and immortal to cut subsidies for individual people who actually need the help, whilst leaving intact the subsidies for big companies. As a further point, whilst SNAP is carefully designed for non-interference with the markets as well as preserving individual autonomy, farm subsidies are widely regarded as manipulating the market and skewing nutritional choices. If anything needs to go, it should be subsidies for big corporations. Small family farms don't seem to be benefiting from this and may be helped by strengthening small business subsidies instead.