No such thing as a free lunch

Ways & Means Committee debates how to pay for Universal School Meals

During Covid, the federal government funded a program providing universal school meals free of charge to all Vermont students. With Covid (hopefully) in the rear-view mirror, that funding dried up after the 2021-22 school year. But, as Ronald Reagan once warned, “Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the n…