Paying for cigarette's with welfare card. (drug, elect, money, government)
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I had no idea that you could buy cigarette's with your welfare card. Amazing that the government is telling us that soda is bad for us but you can buy smokes with your welfare card?
Whiton said a young man came in to the store to buy two packs or cigarettes on May 29. When she asked him for his ID, he handed her his EBT card.
EBT cards are used for both food and cash assistance programs. There are two types of cards: one can only be used for food. The other can be spent on anything and used just like a debit card.
I found this funny and likely cuts to the core of the issue.
The next day Whiton said the customer’s foster mother came to the store to complain. Whiton received a call later that day from the company’s home office in Maine, telling her it had received a complaint about her and reprimanded her.
Well, a city government trying to tell people that soda is bad and being able to purchase cigarettes with an EBT card are really two completely unrelated issues. For starters, government also tells us more than clearly that smoking is bad, and secondly, you can use your EBT card to purchase soda.
The problem is simply that the funds on an EBT card are freely available. These funds are not tied to specific items, otherwise one could legislate that the funds can not be used to purchase, say, potato chips. Since such item-bound funds are rather impossible to issue, government must rely on retailers. Alas, even then enforcement is impossible and hence, rather pointless. There is always somebody who is willing to work around the system.
If you want that EBT funds only go to healthy food, you need to tie the funds to dedicated food banks that give out nothing but food or other items deemed essential.
If you want that EBT funds only go to healthy food, you need to tie the funds to dedicated food banks that give out nothing but food or other items deemed essential.
Agreed--and far better than making taxpayers pay for other people's drug habits.
Well, a city government trying to tell people that soda is bad and being able to purchase cigarettes with an EBT card are really two completely unrelated issues. For starters, government also tells us more than clearly that smoking is bad, and secondly, you can use your EBT card to purchase soda.
The problem is simply that the funds on an EBT card are freely available. These funds are not tied to specific items, otherwise one could legislate that the funds can not be used to purchase, say, potato chips. Since such item-bound funds are rather impossible to issue, government must rely on retailers. Alas, even then enforcement is impossible and hence, rather pointless. There is always somebody who is willing to work around the system.
If you want that EBT funds only go to healthy food, you need to tie the funds to dedicated food banks that give out nothing but food or other items deemed essential.
Yup..go back to what used to work.
If they are hungry then give them food, not money.
If you want that EBT funds only go to healthy food, you need to tie the funds to dedicated food banks that give out nothing but food or other items deemed essential.
And that would be a good start to eliminating food stamp fraud and misuse.
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