The only shock here is that the New York Times is reporting it.
My stepson worked as a cashier. He could have saved them the trouble of doing the study...could spot an EBT cart at 100 yards. Amazing if you think about it.
I see carts piled high with meat.
Their dairy I work at makes Jungle Juice. Probably high on that list
Since when have liberals been against more red tape?! Are they serious?! What about all that red tape from EPA edicts? Obamacare red tape? California is drowning in red tape and the Rats keep coming up with more. This is why politicians and bureaucrats have such a poor reputation.
I was five years old at the time, but I will never forget being in the grocery store with my Grandmother, who was a staunch LBJ democrat, and she saw the lady in line with food stamps in hand at check out and her cart was filled with junk food.
My Grandmother stated, no you don’t, and took all the junk food out.
Why does the US still have Food Stamps ?
Eliminate all federal food stamp, welfare programs. They’re not federal government responsibilities. States and local governments can administer such programs if they so choose. Same thing goes for education and a host of other big government offerings.
Geeze...they should only be allowed to buy water and milk!!
Tax money should never be used to pay for housing, food or medical care for any American who isn’t in the armed forces. Non-citizens should not only be unsubsidized, they should have to pay double. If bad choices had real consequences, fewer people would make them.
The meme here is Food Nazis on the Left and the Right trying to dictate people’s eating habits.
None of their effin’ business. Government takes away too much of our freedom already.
I don’t like the idea of people in our country starving and dying, but if I could wave my magic wand, I’d arrange things differently.
If you feed people and allow them to be comfortable enough to reproduce, won’t you get more dependent people? How is this a good long term goal?
I’d like to have charity soup kitchens for the momentary poor, places where they’d notice if you were coming for more than a few weeks and step in. I’d like anyone homeless with mental or other health reasons who literally could not work to be placed even against their will into charity run closed communities (institutions but more like a little village) where they could be safe and medicated and have a life.
And I’d like some industries, from factories to farming, to accept American day labor for someone who wants to work for 2 hots and a cot. (In my world there would be no illegal aliens.)
And if you don’t have a reason you can’t work, and no one in your family can feed you, you must go and do SOME kind of work in order to eat. It is actually kinder to insist on self reliance, to make people’s lives so unpleasant they die without reproduction, unless they show some effort to work. Children who are neglected to the point of starvation need to be removed from their parents.
Parents need to maybe see a kid die of starvation to wake them up when a penis is heading their way, enough to actually not have sex. Like the song “Love Child” by Diana Ross. She wouldn’t have sex with her guy, not that she didn’t love him. But she didn’t want her child to be mocked and dressed in rags like SHE had been. It was a controversial song at the time. Bastard used to mean more than jerk.
Now, who cares? You have a kid, there is free day care, two free meals at school (breakfast even includes a parent...watch how the parent comes in and eats off the child’s heaping plate, takes a bunch of it with her after), what’s the big deal? Unprotected sex all the time, kids don’t cost anything.
Sad to think of people starving and dying. But what is GOOD about freely feeding a dependent class of human beings that CANNOT have our backs ever? I hope my tax dollars go to supporting all of us who truly are helpless. But there is a whole class of able bodied who are not being fair citizens.
Wow we are angry when school lunches are dictated to our children by Moochelle. Why should we dictate what these people eat? Let them eat and drink what they want. With that being said,this number could be much higher in places where taxes for soda are much higher. Stand alone metrics don’t mean anything when nottaken into the context of total amount of cart, what other items were bought at the same time etc. If we are going to get angry at what our government dicttes to our children what they can or cannot eat,we are being hypocrites when we do the same for those on food stamps. The hope is they will purchase healthy food. That is an individual choice we should not be making for them.
Wann’a bet they are paying full price? Why bother with a coupon when someone else is paying?
I wonder is sugary drinks exceeds exchanging the stamps, for cash in order to buy drugs and alcohol?
Before they had swipe cards, you could tell who was paying with food stamps. Lots of folks were infuriated to see people in line ahead of them buying junk food and luxury, expensive items with food stamps. Meanwhile working people had to clip coupons, buy store brands or sale items, cook from scratch, or do without.
It was also common to see someone paying with food stamps, then walking out to the parking lot and getting into a luxury car. Though it was considered mean and judgmental to point that out.
Food stamp program should be scraped and the feds should send the recipients a box of food once a month with proper food.
I wonder if SNAP covers the soda tax some cities have passed.
In this age of computerization it would be easy to tag the price data base and make certain food items ineligible.
Perhaps we should stop paying for any pre-mixed or cooked food. Make these folks bake their own junk food.
I know my kids always liked my chocolate chip cookies to the store bought.
Don’t stop them. Fat criminals run slow.