Posted on 07/13/2026 10:10:31 AM PDT by CFW
For sixty years, the food stamp program has operated under an arrangement no family and no business would ever accept: one level of government runs the program, and another level of government pays for it. States sign people up, calculate benefits, and process the paperwork while federal taxpayers cover the bill. When the people writing the checks and the people doing the work are in different buildings, nobody watches the register.
The results are exactly what you’d expect. In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent roughly $100 billion on SNAP, and at least $10.5 billion of it was lost to improper payments, according to the Government Accountability Office. That’s at least one dollar out of every nine going out the door in the wrong amount, to the wrong people, or both. Year after year, the error rates barely move because for the states responsible for them, errors are free.
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President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act finally fixed the incentive by requiring states with payment error rates of 6 percent or higher to pay 5 to 15 percent of benefit costs, and every state will cover a larger share of administrative expenses. For the first time since the program was introduced, a state that tolerates sloppy rolls will feel it in its own budget. Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman, describing why the provision exists, put it plainly: “It is clear that improvements were needed to ensure SNAP is administered as intended to support those truly in need while protecting taxpayer dollars.”
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So naturally, Washington wants to kill it.
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Food Stamps / SNAP were massively expanded about 15 years ago to become a middle class entitlement. It was part of Obama’s plan to hook the middle class on benefits. And, of course, with that expansion, the fraud increased (it was there to begin with but it went into overdrive). Accountability is good but its putting your finger int he dike. The program needs a huge cutback in benefits so that only the truly poor will get them and then only on a temporary basis. That will get rid of a lot of fraud.
Obama is just an ideologue built as such during his youth - with finishing touches at university and law school. There are many clueless but dangerous people like him. His mark on the world as not been a good one.
Federal provides the money and butt out.
States decide how it’s spent.
Judges make sure it stays that way.
Cui Bono?
Put your hand down, Mr. Taxpayer. It’s not you.
How are dems going to pay for votes if Trump holds people accountable?
Bkmk
Yes, food stamps were intended for the working poor to help give them a leg up. Not the unemployed, the illegal aliens or the middle class.
Bring back Commodities.
I would rather get rid of SNAP all together.
“I would rather get rid of SNAP all together.”
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SNAP is quite popular throughout the farm belt with people who know it’s really an agricultural subsidy for farmers.
That’s not a valid reason for keeping it.
L
“SNAP is quite popular throughout the farm belt with people who know it’s really an agricultural subsidy for farmers.”
More nonsense from you. Another BS DNC claim. It’s not popular in the farm belt. The farmers are still going to sell their product regardless of how it is paid for. Those welfare people are still going to eat.
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