Recent Food Stamp Observation

Very interesting observation. Amount per bag is insignificant when your not paying for it yourself. I live in San Fran and here it is .10 per bag minimum. I bring my own.

The more interesting thing would be how much some people on food stamps actually make. I bet there is significant amount of welfare fraud in the United States due to underground/black market economy or all cash economies.

Cheers and run hard

What's with the bag taxes anyway? Someone seems to keep successfully perpetuating environmental waste blame on the consumer, meanwhile all the grocery products are wrapped, often times in multiple tacky layers and unnecessary envelopes. At least bags have countless reuse possibilities while food packaging has virtually none.

I guess whatever it takes to make consumers feel like it's their fault and not big business!

I suppose the madness will only end when the poor are either put in prison/workhouses, or just completely cut off of all aid and left to starve or whatever happens to them. Only then will we be free.

Not so Swift wrote:

I suppose the madness will only end when the poor are either put in prison/workhouses, or just completely cut off of all aid and left to starve or whatever happens to them. Only then will we be free.

You said it not me. I don’t want any of those things to happen.

When a country is supporting you I would think the country should have a say in what costs you can pass along to it’s citizens. Bag taxes should not be one of these costs. Honestly I’d be more willing to pay a bit more in taxes to have the program administered better and to provide healthier foods. In no circumstance should a food stamp recipient be able to sell the benefit nor should they only buy white bread, cheetos, and soda.

I believe an able bodied person should contribute to their own upkeep.....It's good for society and good for the individual....When work rules are instituted for food stamps the roles drop 50-90%....What does THAT tell you?

The bag tax is stupid. Food stamps are not stupid although they are abused.

Well, folks who surf the social welfare wave have no issues taking absolutely everything they can get.

If you make them work, there would be another 1% drain on the GDP as they would find a way to cheat, steal and lie their eay to crushing small business.

I have made the mistake of employing them...

They will suck all of the energy out of a small business.

Food Stampin wrote:

Not so Swift wrote:

I suppose the madness will only end when the poor are either put in prison/workhouses, or just completely cut off of all aid and left to starve or whatever happens to them. Only then will we be free.

You said it not me. I don’t want any of those things to happen.

When a country is supporting you I would think the country should have a say in what costs you can pass along to it’s citizens. Bag taxes should not be one of these costs. Honestly I’d be more willing to pay a bit more in taxes to have the program administered better and to provide healthier foods. In no circumstance should a food stamp recipient be able to sell the benefit nor should they only buy white bread, cheetos, and soda.

That's a good point. If these less fortunate people are going to receive food stamps then it should be for healthy foods incorporating plenty of fruits & vegetables. You see so many of these families with carts loaded with treats, snacks, pastries & cases of soda pop. And the little kids are sitting in the carts wolfing down a candy bar & soda.

No healthy food - no food stamps. Lets help them the right way! ?

Another solution would be to ship the poor off to our distant and underpopulated colonies, across the ocean. Lets do that!

God forbid Trump would try to cut out the fraud and welfare waste, or the liberal media, snowflakes, and Sara Hall would have a meltdown.

When Jamestown was established in 1607, Smith trained the first settlers to farm and work, thus saving the colony from early devastation. He publicly stated "He that will not work, shall not eat",

Agreed, food stamps should only be for healthy food. One of the great motivators for the food stamp program was concern of kids getting a good nutritious meal. Let's make sure that happens. Kids deserve it.

This is not political at all for me. I just think we are doing a disservice to many by allowing unhealthy food purchases. If you can’t buy fruits and vegetables then no food stamp. Or how about we have all the farmers who plow over there crop to get govt subsidies collect the food and provide to recipients. This would cost very little compared to now.

I’m trying to think of ways to fix the issue that is good for all.

Teach a man to fish.....

No education or training for a specific job that will contribute to the improvement of the infrastructure, economy, society in general...NO F-ING HANDOUTS!!!!

Give them food stamps during training until gainfully employed but that's it! Make your own way after that!

If they can't figure it out on their own, they don't get to choose what they get training for.

So many people just want something for nothing. I say let them and their illegitimate brood starve until they figure it out. Once they've been productive, then they can use that as a stepping stone to choose.

All you SMART left wing radicals want is control and to play God claiming to be trying to solve the problems of the poor. You aren't very good at it and only cause more problems just to keep control.

Nobody needs to starve...Just make 'life on the dole' uncomfortable and spartan...Soon enough they will start trying to improve their life and move upward....It may sound harsh but we exist in order to become better people and that includes work and sacrifice...