[Gen.Blather]

I had renters who used EBT to buy stuff they’d sell at cents on the dollar so they could buy beer, cigarettes and drugs.

[cotton1706]

“I had renters who used EBT to buy stuff they’d sell at cents on the dollar so they could buy beer, cigarettes and drugs.”

Yes, you’re correct. That’s an example of getting “around the rules”

[AppyPappy]

My sister worked at a flea market and there were people there selling canned food they got from the charity food pantry.

[qwerty1234]

>>I had renters who used EBT to buy stuff they’d sell at cents on the dollar so they could buy beer, cigarettes and drugs.

or those that use their EBT to buy cases of drinking water, (including the bottle deposit) - go out in the parking lot, dump put all the water, and return the 24 bottles per case for the $0.05 deposit - perfect example of the effectiveness of government spending.

[Vigilanteman]

I was comparing notes with a vendor from Massachusetts once. Our local fishwrap (before it became part of the state media) had run an article on a border city in New York which was getting all sorts of deposit bottle and can returns from people driving in with Pennsylvania license plates.

They didn't care about giving the nickel a can deposit back because, well, it was New York and a government program. There was also ample evidence that it was financing many of the drug buys south of the border (Pennsylvania), but no attempt to do anything about it because the "right" people were benefiting. It was well organized, quite legal and costing the State of New York hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Mass vendor gave me a jaded look and said it was nothing. Pennsylvania's indolent classes were at least returning empty cans that had been drunk. In Massachusetts, there was an outbreak of incidents where recycle vending machines were shutting down because the indolent classes were crushing FULLY LOADED cans for the recycling money. IOW, they were too lazy to drink or even empty the cans first.