” Remind me again what food stamps are for. “
OK.
Food stamps are for supporting drug dealers.
A SNAP recipient gives his card to a dealer, for drugs worth half it’s value, who uses it to buy items to supply local stores.
When the card is renewed, the SNAP recipient again gets half it’s value in drugs and the drug dealer again resupplies the local stores.
It’s a double bonus for local stores: they get the SNAP payment for what they sell the dealer, and higher profits on what they buy from the dealer.
Bless our drug dealers, they make the economy work!
Which is why my solution would be government run “basic stables” stores where anyone can go in and get government cheese and flour and sugar and beans and milk and such. Nobody would have to starve, but there might be an incentive to work for better tasting food.
And most of the fraud would go away.