Welfare of any sort should be provided “in kind”. NOT money, and food stamps are money.
If someone needs food, you give them meat, chicken, rice, beans and vegetables. You don’t give them money and tell them to go down to the Safeway and buy whatever they like.
Another important point these dimwit politicos don’t get. Food stamps are a SUPPLIMENT to their food budget. They are not supposed to provide everything. How many people receiving food stamps have absolutely no way of getting any other food?
I’ve always thought that “free” gubmint food should be every kind of thing regular working folks DON’T WANT. You get brussel sprouts, liver, other “organ meats”, oatmeal...the kind of food that is not entertaining. You want Cheeze Doodles, citizen? GET A JOB.
I have the sorry misfortune of having been related to someone who lived in subsidized housing. (I could go on and on) When food stamps were coupons, not many years ago, this persons neighors and she would sell the coupon to others at half of the value for cash. Free cash for the recipient and twice the food for the buyer. All a scam....