[DallasDeb]

This may sound good to some, but it presents a very steep and slippery slope.

[Mr. K]

how much worse than the current system?

Where you can buy 200 bucks worth of water bottles on food stamps, dump them all on the street, then return the bottles for 5 cents each to buy a pack of cigarettes

How much worse could this plan be?

[PjhCPA]

For real?

Steep and slippery slope to solving the problems IMHO.

[decimon]

This may sound good to some, but it presents a very steep and slippery slope.

Indeed. If these welfare programs are one level of government control then this imagined solution is another. What is done to "them" today is our future.

Back when I was in the Army I decided that experience was the closest I would come to living in a communist society.

[dr_who]

The welfare state is the pit below the slope. If people are using food stamps, they should be using them to avoid starvation, nothing else. Make them acceptable only for sustenance and come down hard on people who misuse them.

[Lurker]

Put me in charge: "Work or starve. The choice is yours."

L

[r9etb]

This may sound good to some, but it presents a very steep and slippery slope.

I guess you'll need to spell that one out in a little more detail.