You forget: this is SNAP, i.e. food stamps. It’s the government subsidizing food purchases. Unlike what the idiot bloomberg was doing, this doesn’t affect those who want to buy their beer, soda, or salty food with their own money.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Maine has an incredibly large part of it’s population that is welfare dependent. Handouts shouldn’t be pleasant. And Gov. LePage is making those handouts less pleasant. I suspect he is also trying to scuttle the food stamp program in Maine so it either goes away, or is taken over by the Feds and they get to deal with the administrative burden.
And LePage knows poverty better than any other Governor in the United States. Folks should read up on his biography and Dickensian childhood.