When you see an EBT card used to purchase lobster tails, Chesapeake Bay Blue Shell crabs by the bushel something smells
One might want an investigation in cases where this happens egregiously. Are the persons putting the state on about their degree of poverty? This would be more of a watch list than a banned list.
Not that the state is the best vehicle of what ought to be religious charity, but if it is to be one at all, then it should have some ability to check into the integrity of the claims it gets.
This jerk tries to be the libertarian and does not get Le Page, putting words in his mouth.
Read this which is the point:
“...if the USDA did not allow Maine to ban the purchase of certain foods – deemed by the governor to be unhealthy – he will scrap the entire program.”
Those items should be automatically electronically refused at the cash register.