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Topic	Why does the goverment not want poors to buy hot food with snap money
Questionmarktarius 12/13/19 10:59:54 AM #268:	Shablagoo posted... Im not even opposed to the idea of having some center where those of us on food stamps could go to get all their groceries for the month in one go, but thered have to be considerations. The idea of directly distributing commodities brings us right back to why if we have to have SNAP (etc), it should be no-strings cash - because it can be converted into such anyway. Give a guy a $5 block of government cheese, and he can sell it for $2.50 and starve anyway. The only real beneficiary is the dude who got sketchy half-price groceries, and maybe also a liquor store or something. Give the guy $5, and maybe he'll have some left over after going to the liquor store. If he still manages to starve anyway, that's on him - we already did our part, and heavy-handed paternalism about it all only makes us feel better with no real benefit to whoever we're supposedly helping. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:931528821] in Why does t... [t:78243274]...</cite> <quote>Shablagoo posted... </cite> <quote>Im not even opposed to the idea of having some center where those of us on food stamps could go to get all their groceries for the month in one go, but thered have to be considerations.</quote>The idea of directly distributing commodities brings us right back to why if we have to have SNAP (etc), it should be no-strings cash - because it can be converted into such anyway. Give a guy a $5 block of government cheese, and he can sell it for $2.50 and starve anyway. The only real beneficiary is the dude who got sketchy half-price groceries, and maybe also a liquor store or something. Give the guy $5, and maybe he'll have some left over after going to the liquor store. If he still manages to starve anyway, that's on him - we already did our part, and heavy-handed paternalism about it all only makes us feel better with no real benefit to whoever we're supposedly helping. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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