Let’s look at #1. The truth is, you need to earn 160% of poverty before you can be sure you do NOT qualify for SNAP. So, depending on family size, you need to earn more than most “Big Box” retailers like Walmart pay.
If you are single, you need to earn TWICE Current Federal Minimum Wage before you might be disqualified from SNAP.
If you are on Social Security and were in any way impacted by the Bush Great Recession of 2007/8, or the Stock Market crash of 1999, then you doubtless qualify for SNAP and other programs.
That last problem means those who consider SNAP recipients lazy spongers are attacking your parents, grandparents or both – they are also describing the morality and work ethic of their own parents … who were doubtless Snake Oil salesmen and Con Arts.
But Con Arts con … so the lies work well. This is generally who the liars are:
They are very happy to smoke, drink, eat pork and have you pay the resulting medical costs. BUT NOTE, they do not want it to be via private insurance they contributed to (hence opposing Obamacare), it’s going to be out of YOUR hardworking pocket.
#2 shows the reality of SNAP building economies. Think of it this way: if nobody used SNAP how likely would it be that your supermarket remained open, or that the prices remained low?
Cut the customers by whatever percentage SNAP represents, and the fixed costs for the business are effectively unchanged. Their property taxes and staffing costs are the same – as are heat , light, and other basic maintenance items.
SNAP directly affects sales volume and profits – which determine if the retailer stays in a neighborhood, or leaves and forces you to travel to buy necessities. That in turn determines the number of families in a community, which determines access to schools and medical facilities.
Other public benefits also contribute to neighborhoods. If you consider LIHEAP (heating assistance) that adds thousands to local economies and makes it profitable for heating fuel suppliers to be there. Of course, the idea is to collapse those businesses, or force them to significantly raise prices to cover their fixed costs. If they collapse, the neighborhood, or community folds too.
#3 is a given – fraud is minimal because there is no conversion benefit. SNAP dollars cannot be recovered by anyone who is not a SNAP approved merchant. Therefore the nonsense about SNAP for drugs, or drug dealers with dozens of VALID EBT Cards, is a flat out lie.
A junkie who gives an EBT card in payment does so without the drug dealer knowing the actual cash value on the card (unless he has a reader tied to SNAP servers, making him a registered merchant). Once junkie gets drugs, all that is needed is to report the card lost and it is canceled, the balance transferred to a new card and the dealer has a worthless piece of plastic for which he gave $50 to $100 worth of drugs. Do you really mind having drug dealers ripped off by their clients?
Finally we have #4, which basically has an undocumented individual presenting the necessary documents to prove they are documented – birth certificate, or proof of citizenship, residence address, etc – so they can get benefits from an agency which can then track their movements based on where they use the card, and which requires updated qualification validation. Plus it carries a requirement to report income and criminal penalties for the failure to report that income which overlap the necessity file Income Tax returns.
Effectively, applying for SNAP raises an off-the-books undocumented worker to an criminal Tax Evader and fraudulent filer for government benefits.
GEE individuals go from simple risk of deportation to the possibility of a decade in jail before being deported.
Really s mart – and yet they were smart enough to get here to begin with,. Seems getting to USA eats away brain cells and reduces them to the moronic IQ of the average Tea Party member.
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