SNAP benefits don't pay for rotisserie chicken. A bipartisan bill might change that
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Why not just give them money they can use for drugs instead?
That's some good rage baitin' Mr. Cumfart!
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I know I didn’t realize so many people hated UBI here.
UBI doesn't exist anywhere nationwide (except for the elderly), minimum income guarantees however have been implemented in many countries. For example, in my home country the minimum allowed income for a legal resident in a single-person household is just over 1900 USD per month. Meaning: if your income is below this, you have a right to supplemental income from the government.
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Walmart already uses a loophole for their rotisserie chickens: Just sell some of them cold out of the fridge section. Can use snap for those just fine; but not for the same exact chickens kept in those heat lamp things.
Winco does the same for their pizzas. You buy an uncooked pie with SNAP; they then offer to cook it for you gratis.
Honestly, just let poor people get prepared food, too. A ton of people on foodstamps are homeless and don't even have a way to fucking cook. At least California (and another state I can't remember) have allowed snap to be used at restaurants like McDonalds if you are homeless and/or over a certain age.
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It's not about efficiency. It's about power. It's about making you feel like a piece of shit for having to rely on the government.
You know, the government that's supposed to take care of you.
You know, the government that's supposed to take care of you.
I think that’s where the disagreement begins: they believe the government is a tool to exercise power, a weapon to wrestle away from their enemies, not an entity that’s supposed to take care of you.
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It's not about efficiency. It's about power. It's about making you feel like a piece of shit for having to rely on the government.
You know, the government that's supposed to take care of you.
The government is supposed to be by us, for us. Technically, we get to define what the government's scope is. But we make that decision as a group.
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Walmart already uses a loophole for their rotisserie chickens: Just sell some of them cold out of the fridge section. Can use snap for those just fine; but not for the same exact chickens kept in those heat lamp things.
Winco does the same for their pizzas. You buy an uncooked pie with SNAP; they then offer to cook it for you gratis.
Honestly, just let poor people get prepared food, too. A ton of people on foodstamps are homeless and don't even have a way to fucking cook. At least California (and another state I can't remember) have allowed snap to be used at restaurants like McDonalds if you are homeless and/or over a certain age.
Honestly, just let poor people get prepared food, too.
I think the problem is that poor people are able to use government programs to get food at all. So much of these legislative maneuvers are intended to selectively punish or disenfranchise portions of the population that the state government hates and scare them out of these programs entirely.
The Walmart / Winco end runs are fine enough, until you start asking where these places are located (predominantly white neighborhoods with a surplus of upper income residents) and where they aren't (minority-majority food deserts).
We've got a public-private partnership intended to squeeze out certain segments of the population from having access to any kind of food at all.
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It fucking should. The chicken is good, can be used in many dishes, and is cheaper than raw!
Go for it!
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Walmart already uses a loophole for their rotisserie chickens: Just sell some of them cold out of the fridge section. Can use snap for those just fine; but not for the same exact chickens kept in those heat lamp things.
Winco does the same for their pizzas. You buy an uncooked pie with SNAP; they then offer to cook it for you gratis.
Honestly, just let poor people get prepared food, too. A ton of people on foodstamps are homeless and don't even have a way to fucking cook. At least California (and another state I can't remember) have allowed snap to be used at restaurants like McDonalds if you are homeless and/or over a certain age.
So that’s why take n bake pizza places are so popular in southern red states? I didn’t know there was a regulatory reason!
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We could also stop moralizing poverty and just allow people to buy whatever food they want. But this would be a good step forward.
A balanced diet should be a human right.
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For returnable ones?
Legally speaking, that store could get in big trouble. That's why my local store doesn't do it. That'd be equivalent to them letting you exchange your SNAP benefits for cash, since the bottle could be redeemed for money/credit.
Idk if it may be different in other states, but in California all taxes, including recycling CRV, are waived when using SNAP. It wouldn't make sense for food money paid by taxes to just go back into the pool of taxes. The only returnable bottles I have seen are over at the grocery store across the street from me, and they require coming back to that same store with a receipt, so I don't think I could redeem them for free cash.
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