Sure. Why not? Just in time for 2012 elections, they’ll authorize it for liquor stores and discount cigs outlets. I was behind this woman in the grocery store check out line recently. She was buying a few measly items for her kids with food stamps, and paying cash for her carton of cigs and case of beer. while doling out the food stamps, she had the nerve to complain to the cashier about how she had “lost over a hundred ninety dollahs’” in a poker game the night before. I’m standing there with just barely enough to cover my family’s needs for the week, thinking my tax dollars permit her to blow what little money she has on gambling, beer, and cigs, but she won’t spend a dime on her kids..It was all I could do to keep from slapping her across the back of her head.
I see this all the time at the grocery store - an elderly widower digs out some coins to pay exact change for $15.32 or something buying staples. Her clothes are old but serviceable, the car 30 years old, etc.
Next in line is somebody driving a 35k SUV with a shopping cart literally full of steaks and poultry paying with a welfare card.