“It’s pro-children, pro-family. It’s also pro-business, because every dollar that is spent from this program will be infused into our local economy.”

– State representative and economic illiterate Jason Hughes (D-New Orleans) on a bill he’s authoring that would force Louisiana to accept the federal Summer EBT program. It won’t pass, and it shouldn’t, as Louisiana needs to wean itself from federal welfare programs rather than get further embedded in them.