Posted on 09/30/2015 10:05:08 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
I suppose a rider on the scam could ask the card holder to buy certain food items on the card for him/her, and then pay the card holder a discounted amount for the items.
Kool Aid is used generically now,like Kleenex,Scotch Tape,and Band Aid.
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The people taking potshots from the trees delivered a few lethal doses of their own...
The feds issue $1,000 worth of food stamps....I buy them from people for $.50 on the dollar....they buy cigs. and drugs with their $.50.....I have $.50 to spend on anything I want...that's $500.00....They spend their $500.00, I spend my $500, the gov't is out the original $1,000.....it makes no difference at all where it was spent.
Correction: And obviously a fata$$
Another legal alien?
This is the standard rate for food stamp fraud. Everybody knows it. And there are convenience stores in EVERY neighborhood which perform this "service".
Of course, it's just as easy to accomplish completely underground: someone hands a friend a few 20's, grabs their friend's food stamp card, and goes to Winn Dixie or Publix and spends twice as much as they handed their friend.
Laws preventing the practice are inherently unenforceable. It's exactly why you shouldn't have widespread government programs like this. Virtually everybody who has food stamps, at some point, has committed this "crime" with a friend in a pinch.
It's the kind of government program which allows so much blatant fraud, with virtually no way of enforcing the law, that fighting it in any meaningful way is simply not feasible.
And the WHOLE country knows exactly what is going on.
So the store owner pays $500 to get $1,000.
And the person selling the card for $500 loses $500 in buying power
but gains the ability to use the $500 to buy things he can’t with the original card.
So I see a gain of $500 for the store owner
and a loss of of $500 for the card holder
AFTER the government has dispensed the money.
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