[bill1952]

How many thousands of pages of regulations are you willing to write to manage what such people can and cannot buy with public assistance?

You do not have to do any of that - You simply go back 10 years to where there was an approved list of foodstuffs that one could get with food stamps.

Easily understood, known by everyone in the business

[mvpel]

You do not have to do any of that - You simply go back 10 years to where there was an approved list of foodstuffs that one could get with food stamps.

Again, this is not about food stamps, it's about cash assistance through TANF. There's more to life than just food. It's already not possible to buy tobacco, alcohol, aspirin, vitamins, etc with SNAP funds on an EBT.