Ah...no.
‘families’...uhhhh, ya man the illegals they invited?
Abolish the Food Stamp Program and put up a Soup Kitchen on every corner in America that needs it
No. The money will go to illegals.
Isn’t it odd that when all the pot shops went up, people started going hungry?
And, the dirty little secret they don’t tell you is that SNAP is the entryway to all kinds of freebies. Free cell phone service, free internet, both without question if you are eligible for SNAP.
These are the ones getting an extra $600 per week in their unemployment benefits, and their kids are getting 2-3 free meals per day from their schools (which is not factored in to their food stamps benefits), right?
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend for the purpose of taking care of needy INTRAstate people.
More specifically, the Founding States made the 10th Amendment (10A) in part to clarify that the Constitution's silence about any issue, feeding the hungry in this case, means that the states uniquely have the power to tax and spend on behalf of the poor.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Note that Justice Joseph Story had clarified that taking care of the poor was the job of the states, not the feds.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had later reflected on Story's words by likewise emphasizing that the Founding States had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the federal government.
”[…] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
Part of the reason that corrupt career federal politicians now regularly wrongly steal state revenues, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, to buy votes from poor people to stay in power, is this imo. Whenever the United States gets in a war, it seems that the fed's wartime powers and associated spending never completely go away after the war ends.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
"It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to receive permission." —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)
So what Colorado lawmakers actually need to do to ultimately take care of the poor under their 10A-protected powers is this. State lawmakers need to support PDJT in leading the states to get in corrupt Congress's face to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues imo that they can used to take care of the poor, improve schools including raising teacher's salaries, increase funding to police and fire departments, and repair infrastructure for starters.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots also need to support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control Uncle Sam's "unlimited credit card."" —me
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy, [...]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"It’s politically correct, under the Democratic Party and its tyrant judges, to use your voting power to make your fellow citizens involuntary servants." —me
"The Democratic elite define a "pro-choice" democracy as being able to vote for your preferred master." —me
"The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Really confused. To qualify for food stamps you have to have low income by definition. Lower income people who are unemployed are getting higher than normal pay with the $600 per week kicker. In addition, with low income the $1200 per person COVID relief should cover food for a couple of months.
The real people that should be hurting are the ones who are unemployed and their state unemployment + federal kicker is significantly less than normal income and they don’t qualify for food stamps because their income is too high.