Posted on 08/11/2014 1:48:14 PM PDT by Theoria
This is interesting to me because I thought I had read articles that said WM received 18% of all EBT dollars.
You would expect it to be proportional or a bit higher than their normal market share stats in an area.
Not only do food stamps enslave individuals, they enslave businesses as well...
If it’s fair for the companies, it’s fair for the EBT card holders. Publish a list of people who receive food stamps, so we can find out who’s using and abusing our tax money.
interesting argument, but the only people “benefitting” from Food Stamps are the ones that receive them.
The Evil Businesses are just providing a service, as they do with all their Customers.
What’s the point, shame the Business into refusing to take Food Stamps? Yeah, that will go over like a Fart in a Spacesuit to the poor Victims trying to “buy” (cough, cough) Food for their Families.
So, now we have to lay the ground work to punish companies for “benefitting” from food stamps.
This is going to lead to demands that food stamp users get discounts or something
I think we should post a big pink sign on the door of every welfare recipient’s house showing the total value of public pork they take each year.
Bring back the shame.
>> food stamps ... enslave businesses
Good point.
Actually, corporate/farm welfare of ALL kinds enslaves businesses. Consider the effects of renewable energy policies and ethanol mandates, to name just two.
Beyond that, tolerating illegals in the workforce causes businesses to choose between following suit, or failing to compete.
We’d be way better off if government would KEEP ITS HANDS OFF of the marketplace!
I think there should be a light that goes off, kind of like the old K mart blue light special, whenever a snap card is presented at the cash register. Think of it as a kind of fraud monitoring by those paying the freight. They can eye ball what is heading down the counter and then determine if the recipient is heading out into a Mercedes.
JP Morgan Chase is the largest beneficiary. They run the entire racket and rack up a percentage for every transaction and many programs give straight cash cards now rather than food-only cards. It’s quite a racket if you have no self respect.
And, since a business doesn't have to provide more costs in the form of a higher salary to a employee; they can simply point out their income is low enough to qualify for food stamps in conjunction to their income, which would allow them to partake in the store they work at. Sweet deal.
I’ve known a few people who would “sell” their EBT for a fraction of what they received. They’d get paid $200 to buy someone $250 worth of groceries with their EBT. Depending on how hard up they were for money they would even go lower than that sometimes. And it’s no use reporting it because none of the parties involved would rat each other out to the police.
“We’d be way better off if government would KEEP ITS HANDS OFF of the marketplace!”
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For sure. It is totally up to the voters. If the Congress KNEW that standing for what was right for America would keep them elected, so many of our major problems would vanish.
Yet the voters keep voting for those that want to take America down and not focus on eliminating them from office. It is up to the voters now — this year and 2016. Totally.
They should have to post weekly totals up for us all to see; kinda like the “lottery” postings.
It’s our money, we have every right to know.
So poor people buy their food at stores that sell food the cheapest, big deal.
Stacy Cloyd, the Senior Domestic Policy Analyst at Bread for the World Institute, an anti-hunger organization. Knowing which stores attract the most SNAP customers would “allow hunger advocates to learn from successful businesses and share best practices. It would also help them identify the highest-volume vendors so that they can offer the stores information and recommendations on how they cansupply a variety of nutritious foods,” she writes.
That’d be the basis behind your grant request, to study the problem. ..
FOAD
“That money goes to about 47 million low-income Americans”
They might want to revise this statement to 47 million residents of America.
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