“the market will adjust.” For generations, food stamps have been sold for 50 cents on the dollar to buy what they want from junk food, to cigs, to drugs. Food pantries hand out lots of junk food so Pepsi, Frito Lays and Hershey will continue to have a thriving business.
What we need to do is cut SNAP down to confetti. It is supposed to be temporary aid, not generational. The local food stamp secretary got tired of clients hollering at her because their kids didn’t have milk but then they wait in the lobby with their friends bragging about getting their hair and nails done to go partying on the weekend. She calculated their benefits vs. her working 40/hr to prove they got much more and quit her job right then.
SNAP states, “The maximum monthly SNAP benefit for a four-person household in Texas is $939... The maximum monthly income for a 4-person household to be eligible for SNAP in Texas is $4,125.” Excuse me, but we’ve never had a working paycheck for that much. Remember the $939 SNAP is 70% of the $1350/mo the government thinks it takes to feed a family of 4. That is ***3 TIMES MORE*** than this household’s food budget, which we usually stay under and we don’t get free phones, internet, discounted utilities, etc.
Tell me why SNAP doesn’t subtract the 360 free breakfasts and lunches students get at school, the free food boxes sent home for the weekends and the summer free lunches for ages 0-21, huh? That is double dipping and double charging the taxpayers, imo. Triple and quadruple charging when they are automatically eligible to get food from as many food pantries a month as they wish. Then there are churches, shelter meals and other charities. If you don’t want your blood pressure to skyrocket, don’t search youtube for food pantry hauls where they whine the pistacios are only cracked and not completely shell-less, or they got non-kosher foods which is tossed in the garbage rather than given to their neighbors or they use food pantries so SNAP can pay for their weekend seafood feasts.
It only takes half an hour to put a hot meal on the table so the SNAP folks can get off the couch for that instead of waiting in line for an over priced Big Mac Meal.
It's a way to move welfare to the local level and let people who pay school taxes feed the kids.