There is a clear distinction between oversight of the dependent and the free.
Cracking down on abuse case by case would truly require massive oversight of minutia. My plan is to make the object of theft less attractive, thus removing the incentive for fraud.
By your logic, EBT cards should purchase anything and not be limited to food.
>> There is a clear distinction between oversight of the dependent and the free.
I’m aware that there is a distinction between monitoring the depending and the free — one is within government power, the other is not. I’m not sure most liberal government hacks agree with you, though. Bloomberg, for instance. They’ll monitor the free given the chance ... and they’ll use the system set up for the dependent to do it. Small steps.
>> Cracking down on abuse case by case would truly require massive oversight of minutia. My plan is to make the object of theft less attractive, thus removing the incentive for fraud.
Not sure its possible to make free money less attractive. Buying bad food with food stamps is not fraud. Crack down on fraud. If you’re going to crack down on people for using a “benefit” as intended, you might as well cancel it altogether (which just might work).
>> By your logic, EBT cards should purchase anything and not be limited to food.
Nonsense. Food stamps are supposed to buy food. That’s the point. So, let them buy food with it — including pie — and cook their goose for buying anything else. Logical enough.
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