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Topic	Why does the goverment not want poors to buy hot food with snap money
DifferentialEquation 12/13/19 4:42:58 PM #274:	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 that they could still sell the food, but it would be harder to unload compared being able to use an EBT card which gives the choice of many items. And I suggested earlier just providing some sort of complete nutrient bar and/or drink powder and just distributing those. A single product that provides all the vitamins/minerals someone needs. It would streamline production, it would be better than a lot of the cheap processed foods, it would require no prep, and it would be something that would be fairly difficult to sell for cash which would reduce the currently rampant levels of fraud. --- There's no business to be taxed. <cite>DifferentialEquation posted [p:931543174] 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 that they could still sell the food, but it would be harder to unload compared being able to use an EBT card which gives the choice of many items. And I suggested earlier just providing some sort of complete nutrient bar and/or drink powder and just distributing those. A single product that provides all the vitamins/minerals someone needs. It would streamline production, it would be better than a lot of the cheap processed foods, it would require no prep, and it would be something that would be fairly difficult to sell for cash which would reduce the currently rampant levels of fraud. --- There's no business to be taxed.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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