Politicians are like dirty diapers should be changed often.
Near the end of it: "[A] Baltimore grocery store owner who was ordered to pay $1.3 million in fines after EBT tracking revealed that he had illegally trafficked in food stamps to the tune of $400,000. Investigators determined that the store was taking in far more revenue from EBT cards than its inventory made possible. They said 10 EBT card-holders confessed to selling benefits for cash on 203 occasions." (Underlining added.)
How do you think that store's revenue would show up in the national-account statistics?
The article claims that EBT makes fraud far more difficult, but I have my doubts. This article shows that any 'stimulative' effect of food stamps is, prima facie, due to food-stamp fraud.
I hope you enjoy, or are at least enlightened by, this "FR Archive Dive." I found it early this morning because I couldn't access FR and I was curious about the old days. The original poster was BobS.
Just another reason for why they got rid of food stamps.
Now I just need to find out where in Florida I can buy food stamps at less than half face value so I can cut my grocery bill in half.
How about we start giving out FOOD instead of food stamps from now on? This along with required drug testing for those getting assistance would collapse every blighted section of society nearly overnight.
Some months ago, as I was heading into Giant Eagle, a “minority” woman asked if I had a grocery list. She said she would buy my groceries, if I would pay her 75% of the tab. I said no, and she immediately dropped her fee to 50%. I told her to get lost. She screamed every name in the book at me as I went into the store!
It’s the reason they got rid of food stamps and went to debit type cards.
This article is so bogus! There is no such thing as “food stamp books” anymore. At one time food stamps were paper coupons that were the same as cash. Not only could you sell them on the street for fifty cents on the dollar, but every little bodega and mom & pop store in America were buying them for cash, too. It was very corrupt, and very wasteful. About ten years ago they wised up and changed the system. Now food “stamps” come on a card with a PIN. It’s gaudy and has a big American flag on it. So when you’re standing at the checkout counter at the grocery store, everybody can see that you’re swiping a food stamp card. And if some loser gets desperate enough to sell it, then he has to sell his PIN, too.
Obama's Stash!
This article is so bogus! There is no such thing as “food stamp books” anymore. At one time food stamps were paper coupons that were the same as cash. Not only could you sell them on the street for fifty cents on the dollar, but every little bodega and mom & pop store in America were buying them for cash, too. It was very corrupt, and very wasteful. About ten years ago they wised up and changed the system. Now food “stamps” come on a card with a PIN. It’s gaudy and has a big American flag on it. So when you’re standing at the checkout counter at the grocery store, everybody can see that you’re swiping a food stamp card. And if some loser gets desperate enough to sell it, then he has to sell his PIN, too.
This “news” is 3-1/2 years old.
. Why not ping him to his own thread? He's still here.
Obama voters.
They haven’t used food stamp books in years. It’s on a debit card now.
Politicians are like dirty diapers should be changed often.