Paying for cigarette's with welfare card. (education, state, vote, billion)
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You don't see a problem with people using other people's money to buy cigarettes? Money that should go towards FOOD?!
Smokes are heavily taxed to pay for children's health care, she probably doesn't even smoke and was buying them for the children.you people are heartless
You don't see a problem with people using other people's money to buy cigarettes? Money that should go towards FOOD?!
I agree with the clerk"s belief that food stamps should not go towards buying cigarettes. if someone wants to smoke and harm their bodies then they can do that on their own dime.
HOWEVER. This person is not a lawmaker, she is a clerk, if she wants to make a moral stand that interferes with her ability to do a job then she should be prepared to be fired for taking that stand. I can't believe that people can buy cigarettes with food stamps... but if that's what the law says then who is this clerk to make these decisions on what people can or can't buy with food stamps? Bacon is bad for you, should she be allowed to stop people from buying bacon with food stamps?
If you're passionate that the system is wrong, fight to change it, until then, do your job.
You don't see a problem with people using other people's money to buy cigarettes? Money that should go towards FOOD?!
The person could not buy cigarettes with the food portion of EBT, only the cash. For what it's worth, I think cigarettes are a scourge upon the earth and society. However, there are no rules against buying cigs with EBT cash at this time. Therefore, the clerk was denying a legitimate purchase, and was fired for it.
I agree with the clerk"s belief that food stamps should not go towards buying cigarettes. if someone wants to smoke and harm their bodies then they can do that on their own dime.
HOWEVER. This person is not a lawmaker, she is a clerk, if she wants to make a moral stand that interferes with her ability to do a job then she should be prepared to be fired for taking that stand. I mean honestly, do your job.
I don't know what you can and can't buy with food stamps, but IF a person can buy cigarettes with the stamps, then the clerk should have sold the cigarettes. IF the clerk is so offended because a person can buy cigarettes with food stamps then perhaps the clerk should work through the proper channels to change the law. It is not the clerk's right OR responsibility to unilaterally decide what can and cannot be purchased with food stamps.
That said, IF a person can indeed buy cigarettes with food stamps, that is so not cool. Next step will be using our health care system to pay for lung cancer, COPD, or some other ailment caused by smoking.
Then the thread starter mis-spoke. I guess that's never happened on CD before, eh?
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