SNAP Food Stamps Debate
Discussions center on the US SNAP (food stamps) program, its restrictions on purchases, effectiveness in aiding the poor, taxpayer costs, and alternatives like direct food provision versus cash benefits.
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Poor people in America can get SNAP.
am I suppossed to have an issue with someone having their groceries paid for by snap can now afford rent and maintenence costs for their home?
I guess SNAP doesn't want easy money.
> I don't know how us food stamps work but [snip]So food stamps can only be spent on certain food items.Bread, milk, eggs, etc. So they are doing what is being requested. This is literally why they are given stamps instead of cash, to restrict people.Don't demonise people because they are so poor that they have to accept assistance to be able to eat bread.And yes, in the US they don't have food delivery from all the supermarkets like in the UK. Uber is filling that
No it doesn't. It shows that people who qualify for food stamps (they're still unemployed or low income) don't just have to get crappy food that is terrible for them, and that they are autonomous adults who, though qualifying for aid, are still able to decide how to best spend it based upon the various resources they have available to them. They aren't forced to spend it on just ramen while looking ashamed and embarrassed in the store just to placate those not in the same sit
The taxpayer is already picking up the tab with food stamps.
Consider how little recipients get for food stamps ($100-250/month and can only be used for certain items and in certain stores), this is just turning the screws on the poor.
> Ask any grocery clerk; it’s very common to see someone use SNAP to buy the listed items and then immediately afterwards spend their cash on the other things. Funds are fungible, after all.Why is this at all surprising? SNAP doesn't cover anything non-food, like cleaning supplies; people still need toilet paper and soap.It's called "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program". "Supplemental" seems to perfectly describe that behavior.
How exactly is this different from food stamps?
Why would that example not be someone on food stamps? SNAP is not that much money, and it's obviously being stretched a lot further when she suddenly had an extra 40 meals per week to provide. This affected tons of citizens - that's why the USDA approved and funded school lunch replacements, like central pickup points and in some places lunch deliveries.