To be clear EBT cards can not be legally used to buy those items you listed except candy. That also needs to be eliminated
But we know they will still cheat with the EBT cards
Cheating and scamming welfare part of the game.
There are a million ways to game and scam the system and the recipients know all of them
The rest of us are clueless to the fraud.
I thought I knew a bit about the scams but then I talked to a social worker who really knows the system and got a real education
The fraud is built into the system and everyone knows the score. Some of the schemes are diabolically clever but they only work because welfare recipients are willing to squander thousands of dollars in SNAP welfare money to launder it into a hundred dollars of drug money.
It’s the SNAP equivalent of destroying a million dollars air conditioning system to get a few hundred bucks for the aluminum and copper condenser coils