Food Stamp Reform: Alcohol & Tobacco Restrictions

I can get on board with that. Seems like a no brainer.

Still not sure how to solve the issue the OP has though.

 

100% agree.

 

Lots and lots of surveillance. Sounds like we need Food Stamp Police.

 

Tobacco is a vegetable.

 

Screw it. So is cocaine

 

Don't forget heroin!

 

Two entirely legal purchases.

 

lest we forget about hops!

 

Re EBT
You cannot purchase a sub made by Publix at the deli but you can buy the ingredients and make your own.

You cannot buy any paper goods, tobacco products, or alcohol.

 

The nation would be a better place if they just stopped selling cigarettes.

 

Or if entitled people stopped whining about what impoverished folks are buying with their own cash.

 

I don't care what they buy with their own money. I also wasn't suggesting cigarettes should be banned, simply that I wished they would no longer be sold. Arguing there is some benefit to society from people smoking cigarettes is slightly reminiscent of arguing slavery provided some benefit to the slaves.

My best friend, a former 25 year smoker with Stage 4 cancer, just started the first human trials of an experimental cancer therapy today as he was no longer responding well to chemo. While no one forced him to smoke, I'm not currently feeling warm and fuzzy thoughts about the tobacco industry.

 

probably. it is horrifically inefficient. We have 100m, let's transfer 50m of it & use the rest for idiotic bureaucracy. Oh, & then maybe 25m ends up consumed as food after the tedious conversion of cheese to booze process has played out. sounds like gov

 

OMG. no 1 whose ID prohibits alcohol & tobacco ever gets those items. Gee, they should make our IDs restrict the purchase of fentanyl, crack, heroin, etc.

 

They get free condoms?

 

I know you think gov knows better than markets...dude sez hey just bought $100 worth of bone in rib eyes, wife called & she's sick, so dinner party's off, I'll let ya have em for $25. I buy em, I AIN'T going to jail.