Posted on 03/19/2015 12:04:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Primarily you are looking at taxpayers dollars that provide EBT cards, that are ultimately buying drugs, said Sheriff Deryl Loar, of the Indian River County Sheriffs Office in Florida.
Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (EBT) allow individuals receiving government benefits such as food stamps to charge products to the government when they shop.
The Indian River County Sheriffs Office tells WPEC-TV that career criminal Anthony Wheeler is not the first accused drug dealer found taking payment for drugs with taxpayer-funded electronic benefit cards.
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The act of drug use in and of itself creates no bills; SOME drug users do things whose bills the taxpayers have CHOSEN, through their elected representatives, to foot.
This is a weed tokers variation of "It's not the fall that kills you but the sudden stop at the end."
This is a weed tokers variation of "It's not the fall that kills you but the sudden stop at the end."
The sudden stop is not chosen, through elected representative or otherwise.
The "sudden stop" is a consequence of initiating the fall.
It is amazing that you focus on pot in your comment, when it is FAR FAR FAR less harmful than alcohol, prescription drug abuse, or the harder drugs. It makes you seem like a single-issue moron.
In 1973 the American Psychiatric Society removed Homosexuality from the list of mental disorders. They did so because armies of queers would show up at their meetings and threaten them.
That opened a crack in what was a previously universal condemnation of an abnormal and very unhealthy practice. Do you see where it has gone from there?
Yes, i'm aware that weed is a minor drug compared to others, but this argument does not end with weed. It just begins with weed.
It makes you seem like a single-issue moron.
Then you obviously do not keep up with the diversity of topics I discuss. "Pot", is one of the least among them.
By contrast, any bill the taxpayer foots is one he chose through his elected representatives to foot.
Yes, I fully understand your position. We are not to blame the dope for the people who smoke dope being worthless parasites that make the rest of us carry their weight.
It's the fault of everyone and everything EXCEPT THE DOPE.
No, they don't make us - their contribution is to accept the carrying that our elected representatives and their enforcement agents make us do.
You’re a small timer.
I’ve seen a 7-bagger on FR at least once, LOL.
Can someone explain this? I always thought food stamps were typically sold on the black market for 60 cents on the dollar.
That’s the ‘old school’ way.
By keeping the card the dealer can go at his convenience or send someone else or re-sell it outright if he wants to drop the user-client.
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