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Topic	Why does the goverment not want poors to buy hot food with snap money
Shablagoo 12/13/19 4:27:51 PM #272:	Questionmarktarius posted... 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. True, Id agree its likely better to just give cash instead of stamps. In the sense that its more humane but also in that its better for the economy. --- "It was some post on the NFL board that got him." -AwesomeToTheMAX <cite>Shablagoo posted [p:931542570] in Why does t... [t:78243274]...</cite> <quote>Questionmarktarius posted... </cite> <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> True, Id agree its likely better to just give cash instead of stamps. In the sense that its more humane but also in that its better for the economy. --- "It was some post on the NFL board that got him." -AwesomeToTheMAX</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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