Posted on 05/10/2009 7:27:26 AM PDT by The Good Doctor
Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would bar welfare recipients from using taxpayer-backed benefit cards to buy alcohol.
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
Personal responsibility is so 1980's. /s
How about Cigarettes TOO!
Many states already have this regulation. No one can argue against it; I doubt PA will have a problem getting it passed.
I agree. However, all you'll find is a black market crop up where vouchers get sold for cash.
All they'd have to do is cash the welfare check at the check cashing place next door to the liquor store. Where there's a check cashing place, there's almost always a liquor store on the same block.
yup..usually for .50 or .75 on the dollar
Meth and crack sales expecting boost in sales due to extra income available.
The welfare people use a debit card and from what I have figured out from being behind them in line they can ask for a certain amount of cash from it. They can buy booze with that.
However I do the like the idea of them just buying the basics but like everything else in their life they will overcome and figure a way around it.
i saw a welfare rat buy a pack of gum with a food a stamp at a 7/11 one day and get real change back, then walk outside and throw away the gum. i said what the hell is that all about knowing the answer as soon as the question left my mouth,
"Oh he'll do that all over town then but cigarettes and beer when he gets enough real money."
Yes, I knew people who sold their food stamps for cash to buy alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Nothing will prevent people from using the cards to buy wholesome food and selling that food for cash to buy want they want.
At least Texas' system had a safeguard in place preventing such purchases with our food stamps. Welfare piglets still tried to circumvent the law. My first job was as a grocery store cashier and I can tell you some stories. Before the electronic system came into existence, the state issued actual "food coupons," denominated "bills" that were used like money to buy food. Only, any cent difference was refunded in change. Welfare piglets would buy a stick of gum, get the change, buy another, stick of gum, get change, etc. until they had enough for a pack of cigarettes. Truly despicable how they would game the system, but there was little we could do. Thank goodness for the debit card that replaced the coupons.
The fact that this is not already the case, staggers.
Unless the meth dealer has a VISA license, I don’t see it as much of a problem.
And seriously, since you can get cash from an ATM with those cards, all they are doing is delaying it for a tad bit longer.
What’s the difference between this policy and one where to government dictates salary caps to companies getting bailout funds? I don’t like either policy. Do you restrict use of charitable donations to uses for which you personally approve? The solution is welfare and bailout reduction if not elimination.
Yes, I do.
If you ask me for $20.00, I would deny you the right to buy a rock of crack cocaine with said $20.00.
Thought of that all by themselves, did they?
If it was their money, they could do whatever they want with it. However, in this case it is MY money.
I’m calling ACORN and the ACLU and RAZA and the NAACP right now...this can’t be happening. Why should the poor not have alochol?
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