You're worried about the wrong things. No one is going to be hurting for food or rebelling if EBT is taken away. As you've seen, it pays for indulgences. The same WalMart that sells Ben & Jerry's sells flour at 0.025 dollars/ounce. People can eat flapjacks pretty cheap. And with their own money!
The real victims if EBT goes away? Ben & Jerry's.
Other anecdotes for those who've never been poor: A favorite sight is big-fat-mama paying for a cart full of shit with EBT, and then big-fat-papa rolling up behind paying for a cart full of Bud Lite out of a roll of cash. Love that. Another is hearing about people who got off EBT reminiscing about buying steak and lobster (yes) when it was someone else's money.
It's total waste. Just go back to government cheese and all the "problems" with nutrition will still be "solved" and Ben & Jerry's (and Gino's pizza, and the beef council, and indirectly Budweiser, can go screw.)
> No one is going to be hurting for food or rebelling if EBT is taken away.
History would suggest otherwise. Look into the "rediscovery" of hunger in the 1960s. Both Republicans and Democrats eventually supported expansions of food programs because investigations found widespread hunger and malnutrition, and those expansions did appear successful in reducing it.
The real victims if EBT goes away? Ben & Jerry's.
Other anecdotes for those who've never been poor: A favorite sight is big-fat-mama paying for a cart full of shit with EBT, and then big-fat-papa rolling up behind paying for a cart full of Bud Lite out of a roll of cash. Love that. Another is hearing about people who got off EBT reminiscing about buying steak and lobster (yes) when it was someone else's money.
It's total waste. Just go back to government cheese and all the "problems" with nutrition will still be "solved" and Ben & Jerry's (and Gino's pizza, and the beef council, and indirectly Budweiser, can go screw.)