Yup ~ the poor are probably stealing us blind ~ which is why they are still poor.
let's see, if somebody on food stamps used his card three times a day to buy a $3.45 sandwich (no kitchen, no refrigerator, semi-homeless ~ this is normal), and each time got $0.55 change back, that'd be $1.65 per day, or about $24 billion per year if you had 40,000,000 people on food stamps.
With food stamps running $68.88 per week, that's a total budget of $143 billion per year.
Nope, doesn't seem to me making change is running it in the ditch ~ and at max that'd be about 17% of total program costs.
I suspect a very high percentage of food stamps value goes for food which is eaten by the intended targets.
And hey, almost everybody on food stamps now uses a food stamp card, not actual food stamps, so they get to keep that change and spend it on something else ~ like vitamins even.
A secret to life ~ if you find yourself fixated on foodstamps and see them as probably the single greatest source of fraud and theft in this country, you probably should check in with a minister or rabbi, or priest, and have them take you to see some poor people on food stamps so you can talk to them. Even rabbis know some poor people ~ and you will find they know all the other people who work with the poor as well.
I think you are over-reacting to my comment. I recall reading that some states allow people to use their food stamp card and walk away with $50 in cash at the store. This is not the same as your $.55 3 times a day.
Your sarcasm is not appreciated. I am not “fixated on food stamps” as you suggest. I do know and have known people on food stamps and “poor people”, even have some personal experience with that. So save your “secret to life” crap for another time/place/poster.