I read somewhere that only about 25% of welfare spending reaches the end-user (I wish I could say “poor” there), I guess I never thought about how much of that 25% might be skimmed off as “processing”.
I say we either go to WW2 type ration books (picked up monthly, bring your whole family) or we just abolish all welfare programs and just hand out cash. Cut out all the middle men. (Not really an improvement but imagine if we saved 50% of that overhead for the taxpayers)
“I say we either go to WW2 type ration books (picked up monthly, bring your whole family)”
I remember those ration books - yes, I am that old. I was a child so I thought it was normal, that is the way people bought items, they could only buy so many at a time, or only buy one, depending on what it was. One had to have a shoe coupon to get shoes. A sugar coupon to buy sugar and a gas one to buy gasoline and one to buy tires for the car. I think there was one for gasoline but I don’t remember seeing it but probably wouldn’t have seen it anyway.