There should be no incentive to go on a “shopping/eating spree” once a month when living like this on the taxpayer dime. Move off this program to enjoy such benefits.
$200 worth of food stamps still cost the same whether they are used to purchase chips & dip or beans & cans of peas.
It seems to me we should be encouraging more of these people to be independent and think for themselves. The natural consequences of spending your grocery money foolishly is going hungry. The natural consequences of not having a job used to be going hungry and having no place to live. My how things have changed.
Protecting people who are on the public dole from the natural consequences of their bad choices isn’t helping anyone. What benefit or cost saving is there to the taxpayers would there be to control what these people are buying?
You have to pay someone to come up with an increasingly long list of taboo foods. Who decides what is on this list? No soda pop? Okay how about fruit juices which can contain just as much sugar? What about a jar of pickles? Too much sodium? A dozen eggs and a pound of butter. Too much fat? Are they allowed to buy any sugar? If so can they buy flour, eggs and butter too and make their own cookies and cakes? This gets ridiculous.
Unless we want the pleasure of just telling these people they can’t eat certain foods because we want to punish them for being on welfare and we don’t think they should be able to eat those things I see no relief to the taxpayer in this.
Fixing fraud and abuse is one thing. This is something else entirely.