In New Hampshire, of the 883 stores that take food stamp cards, only 18 were disqualified from the program since 2006. The story was similar in Massachusetts, where just 228 of the 4,320 stores authorized to accept food stamps were disqualified. By 2009, 90 of those Massachusetts retailers were back on the list of authorized food stamp merchants and had collectively racked up more than $7 million in food stamp redemptions in that one year alone, records obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the $50 billion program, show.
"The biggest problem we have here in Massachusetts is that we can't prosecute because there is no state statute," said one Bay State investigator who has assisted federal agents in retailer investigations. "We couldn't even bring a case against them."
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2012/01/the_politics_of_food_stamps.shtml
Good question - I’m in the state of Washington which is run by democrats and is a fiscal, social, business, moral, criminal, stinking disaster. But I repeat myself :>)