Why are there so many redundant posts?
;-)
Seriously, though, the answer is that this way they can hide all the money they spend. Note that the food stamps program is now bigger than all of the rest of the USDA budget combined...actual Agriculture programs are a side part of the USDA now.
And most people think all that spending is under Health and Human Services, so when they look at the HHS budget, they don’t realize they’re seeing only part of the spending.
Also, the way millionaires can get food stamps illustrates how ridiculous it is to define “rich” by income rather than wealth.
we need to change the terms to rich and high income.
watch the hollywood rats squeal if you really tried to tax assets..
The definition of poverty in the US is a scam. When you read poverty statistics, note that it only counts income. So a person could be making a few thousand a year plus receiving food stamps, free or subsidized housing and utilities, 3 meals a day for the kiddies from school, free medical care, and even a free cell phone and still be counted as being in poverty.
It is a complete rip-off. Stossel and others have shown that most “poor” people in this country are not truly poor by any meaningful definition of the word. The liberals have redefined poor to mean anyone who lacks something they want that others have.
I think all welfare programs should be merged into one and then fire all of the duplicate bureaucracies.