Get’cha Honey for Nothin’, Get’cha Chips for Free (I want my, I want my, I want my E-B-T!)

TrevorGrantThomas.com ^ | 8/19/15 | Trevor Thomas

[DWW1990]

The quickest and surest way to make things more expensive for most of us is for someone in our government to attempt to make such things “free” for some.

As I noted earlier this year, the largest “charity” in the U.S. is government (which, of course, brags about it!). Americans gave a total of approximately $3.4 billion (about $2.4 billion from individuals) to private charities in 2013. In the same year, Americans received over $600 billion from means-tested (recipients required to be below a certain income level) government programs (housing, food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, and the like). When non means-tested programs (Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and so on) are included, the total is a shocking and staggering $2 trillion dollars.

[TBP]

The quickest and surest way to make things more expensive for most of us is for someone in our government to attempt to make such things “free” for some.

Which is precisely why "progressives" keep on doing it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

EBT users don’t typically buy honey. Too healthy.

[PATRIOT1876]

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.”

~Alexander Tytler

[GnuThere]

Yeah, look for the people with brimming shopping carts full of the most expensive cuts of meat...that people on a BUDGET could never afford.