There’s a lot of free stuff given out at the taxpayer expense already — including food stamps.
If there really are any hungry people in the USA, their predicament is most likely one of their own making.
RE: money in food stamps....
In fiscal 2022, the government spent $119.4 billion on SNAP food benefits. Some $113.9 billion went to benefits while $5.5 billion went to administrative and other expenses.
It is.
We lived in a welfare town for 18 LONG years and there were slum lord rental properties down the street from us.
They stuff they actually spent their money on was staggering. And then they'd whine about not having enough money for food.
And some of the stuff I saw when handing out Thanksgiving baskets for church. No different.
Lots of money for booze, cigs, video games, big screen TV's, DVDs, etc, (and drugs which we knew they did but didn't leave out laying around) but, oh..... they were so poor and starving, they didn't know what they were going to do for a Thanksgiving meal if it weren't for the church......