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I had never thought much about it before, but today I drove by a beer and wine shop that had a big sign saying "we accept food stamps." This was very surprising and upsetting to me. In my opinion, food stamps should be there solely as a safety net to prevent people from starving, they shouldn't enable you to buy things that are not basic life necessities (i.e. luxuries). Luxuries should be something that one can only acquire if one has disposable income that comes from working and contributing to society. By allowing people these luxuries without working for them, you allow people to be comfortable on food stamps, and don't put pressure on them to get jobs and get off of them. If the government were to allow people to only buy the basic necessities with food stamps, the government would put pressure on people to get jobs in order to get what they want but cannot get. This seems relatively obvious to me, and I was somewhat appalled to find out that you can buy alcohol with food stamps. Thoughts?
I agree. Though I often side with the left, which it seems is the only side that chooses to assist the needy, I have often seen or heard about cases that show ... Sometimes in loud refrain, the amount of waste, and abuse of the system.
It's one of the things I hate about the right, which endorse a thing called "smaller government" and I feel the term should be "smarter and wiser government".
But I also hate the wastefulness and often thoughtless excesses of the left.
This is a small piece of why I pull my hair out at both sides, as they cannot reckon a meaningful and centered compromise in this nation's woes.
Alcohol? Hmmm - might be one reason somebody is unhireable.
Cigarettes? If you can't support yourself now, why should society add on your future healthcare bills?
I feel wholeheartedly that the safety met should be there and be strong for those who are in need. But the stupidity in it's current implementation is sometimes sickening.
Milton Friedman showed long ago that the most effective form of welfare is a 'negative income tax,' i.e. give them the cash and let them decide how to dispose of it. Ironically the left now the new puritan, insisting on telling people how and on what they should dispose of their income.
I had never thought much about it before, but today I drove by a beer and wine shop that had a big sign saying "we accept food stamps." This was very surprising and upsetting to me. In my opinion, food stamps should be there solely as a safety net to prevent people from starving, they shouldn't enable you to buy things that are not basic life necessities (i.e. luxuries). Luxuries should be something that one can only acquire if one has disposable income that comes from working and contributing to society. By allowing people these luxuries without working for them, you allow people to be comfortable on food stamps, and don't put pressure on them to get jobs and get off of them. If the government were to allow people to only buy the basic necessities with food stamps, the government would put pressure on people to get jobs in order to get what they want but cannot get. This seems relatively obvious to me, and I was somewhat appalled to find out that you can buy alcohol with food stamps. Thoughts?
You can't buy taxable items with food stamps, not even toilet paper.
You can't buy taxable items with food stamps, not even toilet paper.
This must be a state by state thing, because Minnesota for instances taxes food, but not clothing.
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