MA to spend around 100 million for school meals. This is so there will be no direct costs to the student for food while at school. There has been full price lunch, 1/2 price lunch and no cost lunch depending on student status. As I understand it, that has been the process for a long time. Under new provisions by the state, the cost of the meals will come from state budget (our tax dollars) and as i see it, it is a good thing.

So, is this socialism? Consider every city and town in the commonwealth of Ma receives state aid in the form of unrestricted general governmental aid (ugga) and then there is chapter 70 funding which is tax dollars distributed to school districts (fair or unfairly) then there is gas tax and chapter 90 funding, which is really just more debt for the state (us) because chapter 90 (road money) is a yearly bonding bill (can you say borrow money) so I view this meals program as just another return of some of our tax dollars that we sent to the statehouse each year. FY24 ugga to Templeton, around 1.9 million dollars, so if Templeton residents are opposed to socialism, then I suppose we could have a town meeting vote to not accept ugga funds, or chapter 90 funds.