Subsidized little amigo blunts?
I don’t think food stamps can buy ciggies. I know people sell stamps for cash that they can then buy them, but I don’t think alcohol or cigs can directly be bought with them.
I say drug test govt benefit takers. We all haveto take drug tests for JOBS, let them take tests for their BENEFITS that come from govt confiscating money from others.
They buy them illegally at a much reduced cost. There are plenty of fraternal organizations in my area where you can buy bootleg cigarettes. Soldiers coming up from Fort Bragg can make a lot of money filling their cars with cartons of Marlborough cartons before heading back to New England.
well, if they are living on government monies, they get food stamps, cash, housing assistance, child care assistance, etc.
notice in that list is “cash.” they have to have cash to buy non-food items such as toilet paper, clothes, etc.
and that is where the cigarette fund comes from.
Expanded Medicaid permits income up to about $33,000 for a family of poor. Not really that poor (much more income than my family).
What about the things they don’t list, like alcohol abuse, drug abuse, gambling. What is the big deal, why the effort to make poor people live healthy.........so they can live miserable for a longer time? So they can’t smoke, drink, eat food that tastes good, can’t gamble, for Christ’s sake you’ll have them healthy and alert enough to understand what obama, moochelle and the democrats have done to them and then they’ll commit suicide!
I know an Asian grocer who installed in a big fresh-lobster and crab tank in his store. I asked who was buying $30/lb Alaskan king crab. He said it was mostly foodstamp users.
Article seems to say that more Medicaid smokers actually report that they smoke...in my household, our doctors know that we smoke, we just lie about how much. ; )
We have employer-provided health coverage (actually, earned by us of course, docked from our pay) and NOT "Obamacare"...and everyone frowns on smokers nowadays, so we're in a hugely over-taxed minority, BUT, it still IS legal, and we still live in the "land of the free"!!
I don't know how poor people afford cigarettes...probably from the good will of their friends, or the cheating of the vendors they use government benefits to buy them from.
But I will defend the right of anyone of the proper age to smoke cigarettes in their own home/car/etc...they can lie about it or not as they choose!
They don’t buy and take their medicine. They buy cigarettes instead.
Makes me like the high taxes on them, they line up for lottery tickets too,
They don’t have to buy food, housing, cell phone service, so they have money for smokes! All thanks to you and me.
Good question. There are plenty of "street people" i.e. beggars her in the Kona area, and most of them seem to smoke. You do have to wonder, at the hideous cost of the filthy things, why do they need money for food if they have plenty to feed the nicotine habit?
My uber-liberal sister claimed she would never give money to the street people because they would use it for cigarettes and booze.
Probably one of the few things I ever came close to agreement with the deranged old witch about.
They buy generic bags of tobacco, which is fairly cheap, and roll their own. That is what most do in my area.
They are earning in the gray economy
They buy other useful commodities, like liquid Tide soap, and barter/sell them for cash or cigarettes. Often times in EBT card communities untaxed cigarettes can be acquired pretty easily.
Being a working stiff,I can’t afford the cost of cigarettes or the time off to care for smoking induced illnesses.
I’m to busy doing my part for all of Oboma’s unidentified illegals pouring into this country.
If I don’t have to buy my own food, pay my own rent, pa for my own medical care, then I can spend the money I have on other things - cigarettes, booze, pot, lottery tickets, you know, the important things in life.