What could possibly go wrong? Instead of scalping tickets, the bums can just temporarily “rent out” their benefits card at the door to those incoming shoppers who somehow “forgot” theirs at home.
Taxpayers are suckers and governments are thieves
The honor system is mostly long gone in America, it might work at first but the vultures will end it.
Me, me, me, ‘learn to say no’ , ‘self pride’ has been taught for too long and it is part of the culture now.
It may have been the 70s when I read about someone in a semi rural area that put a one time load of cash in a (mailbox?) by the road with a take what you need sign on it, about $1200.00 in today’s money.
The person who put out the cash told the reporter that over the many years, sometimes it ran low and sometimes it was far higher than what it started with, but it was self sustaining for many years.
This is to subsidize the suppliers, not the “customers”.
I’m sure this will be a huge success!
The government replicating the private sector? That’s a knee slapper. Why not just have the private sector run the real thing? Oh, yeah. The government 1) created this amoral underclass in the first place and 2) the government failed to stop crime. The private sector responded appropriately by leaving those lawless areas. But the government is immune to market forces and never self-corrects.
This will be a massive failure. The $5 million will become $10 million will become $20 million will become $100 million.
I predict this place will also close because of high crime.
They used to do this in the Soviet Union.