People receiving welfare are complaining they now cannot buy candy and soda with tax money they are given

[Rawley]

Glad you ask

Because we allow corporations to deduct private jets, luxury automobiles, meals at five star restaurants as a business expense

OK

We don’t supervise their business expenses and make them fly economy, drive an American midsized car or pay for their own meals.

You're kidding, right? The IRS supervises their business expenses like freaking vultures.

But we will deny a poor person a liter of soda

Not at all. They can buy gallons of the stuff.

 

[Nostra]

Nobody worked for that money. Many pay for it though.

Yes, you are upset that those at the bottom get some help to survive but not that billions get pumped to create more and more millionaires thereby driving inflation.

Nobody worked for all the taxes the govt takes?

You are a colossal, ginormous idiot.

 

[Mr Natural]

According to the GAO, about 14% to 15%....What's your point?

So, 15% of your tax dollars are going to pay for the leeches candy and soda?

That’s a lot of candy and soda.

 

[ColonelAngus]

That takes effort over and above whining and crying like little punks, so no way it happens.

Lefties never want any of the crap they cry about to get fixed. They ONLY want to cry.

See homelessness as an example.

 

[ThisIsMe]

When was there a filibuster proof majority in the Senate? Dates please.
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Democrats held a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate for only a few months during Barack Obama's first term, specifically from September 24, 2009, to February 4, 2010.

 

[candycorn]

Or….here’s an idea….that can mow lawns or shovel snow for a little extra cash (like I did when I was a kid).

No you didn’t.

 

[rightwinger]

Not at all. They can buy gallons of the stuff.

And Corporations can pay for private jets, luxury automobiles and gourmet meals out of Corporate Profits not business expenses

 

[Nostra]

And Corporations can pay for private jets, luxury automobiles and gourmet meals out of Corporate Profits not business expenses

They don’t pay them out of profits now?

What a clueless idiot.

 

[Rawley]

And Corporations can pay for private jets, luxury automobiles and gourmet meals out of Corporate Profits not business expenses

Uh, they do pay for their private jets, luxury automobiles and gourmet meals.

 

[j-mac]

Not sure how that's possible.

Let's run the math.

Let's say your hypothetical "leech" is getting Food Stamps, Section 8, TANF, and Medicare

SNAP = $350.00 a month for a family
Section 8 = $900 a month
TANF = $552.00 a month
MEDICARE - $600.00 a month.

So, total they are making $2500 a month in benefits. Or about $650.00 a week.

Now, if you are only making $650 a week working 70 hours a week, you are certainly doing it wrong.

Go take a look at the Government survey of this....THEY are the ones putting out the numbers, NOT me jackass...their numbers spell it out in the article I posted, you're just too dumb to read, and comprehend it....

And no stupid, I make far more than your ficticious number of $650 per week...But, the fact of the matter is that I WORK FOR IT....But, not these leeches you support, they sit on ass and wait for their check, wait for their card to be replenished, never once considering that maybe getting a job would improve their lives...

 

[j-mac]

So, 15% of your tax dollars are going to pay for the leeches candy and soda?

That’s a lot of candy and soda.

These are Government numbers....I thought I made that clear....But, yes, that is a lot of junk....So, tell me, why do you think it's ok for people on SNAP, to be buying this crap...It's bad for their health. Maybe we should take this to you like you would against us?

Why are you trying to kill poor people through crappy nutrition? All you liberals ever do is try to kill minorities. Abortion, poor diet, and a blind eye to crime in poor neighborhoods...You people are trying to kill the poor, you racist.

 

[Nostra]

These are Government numbers....I thought I made that clear....But, yes, that is a lot of junk....So, tell me, why do you think it's ok for people on SNAP, to be buying this crap...It's bad for their health. Maybe we should take this to you like you would against us?

Why are you trying to kill poor people through crappy nutrition? All you liberals ever do is try to kill minorities. Abortion, poor diet, and a blind eye to crime in poor neighborhoods...You people are trying to kill the poor, you racist.

The Islomocrat Cult wants to keep the poor poor.

Make them depend on handouts to eat, the fatten them up with shit food so the rely in free healthcare because they are fat and unhealthy.

They are easier to control that way.

 

[rightwinger]

Uh, they do pay for their private jets, luxury automobiles and gourmet meals.

They get deducted as a business expense

If the wealthy can deduct luxuries like corporate jets the poor should get luxuries like a liter of soda

 

[j-mac]

The Islomocrat Cult wants to keep the poor poor.

Make them depend on handouts to eat, the fatten them up with shit food so the rely in free healthcare because they are fat and unhealthy.

They are easier to control that way.

That's exactly my point Nostra....So, we need to beat them over the head with their racism of keeping an entire segment on society on these programs of control, or the plantation if you will. They are in fact the true racists while out there chimping out that everyone else is racist because they can't buy Coke, and M&M's with SNAP...They are in fact the true racists, just like Margret Sanger....Looking to exterminate the black race from America....

These people are the epotome of "blotto world" a cartoon from the 80s where everything was backwards and upside down. Even down to their arguments.....It's as though they project exactly what they are doing with every utterence....

 

[Nostra]

They get deducted as a business expense

If the wealthy can deduct luxuries like corporate jets the poor should get luxuries like a liter of soda

Ok, let the poor deduct Ho-Hos on their taxes.

Problem solved.

 

[j-mac]

Ok, let the poor deduct Ho-Hos on their taxes.

Problem solved.

Don't forget those RNR rented 30s their 1995 Caprice Classics are riding on....got to be some sort of deduction there....

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

If one wants to purchase NON NECESSARY ITEMS, PAY FOR THEM YOURSELF.

Welfare should be for staple food products. Milk, bread, meat, vegetables, etc.

Not Kit Kat bars and Dr Pepper.

I love the new restrictions.

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"All food is healthy, it's just a matter if you INDULGE in it".

Oh, yeah!

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[Rawley]

They get deducted as a business expense

Yup. typically at a 50% rate for meals, if they are a business meal. Jets are a corporate asset that gets depreciated over time.

If the wealthy can deduct luxuries like corporate jets the poor should get luxuries like a liter of soda

The "wealthy" cannot deduct their jets. Corporations can as they are an asset of the corporation, like a building or trucks.

14th time, "the poor" can buy gallons of soda, and cigarettes and beer.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I worked in a deli when I was in high school and you could not use food stamps for candy or soft drinks. Has that changed?

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It sure has. I'm glad it's changing back.

I was in the grocery store line one day, behind a woman buying about a dozen candy bars on her EBT card, and the checker said something about how that must be a good supply for a week or two, to which she replied that was just one day's supply.

Yeah, and she was about as wide as she was tall. A guarantee there that the taxpayers would soon be paying for her insulin, and if she didn't seriously change her ways, paying for her limb amputation(s) and dialysis and, if she was lucky, her kidney transplant.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

They can still buy fruit with EBT.....Want something sweet then there you go.

Fruit contains sugar, sometimes a lot of it, but it doesn't have the same effect on your body as the added sugars in processed foods, according to Medical News Today. The sugars that naturally occur in fruit are inside fiber cells that the body must first break down, as opposed to the added sugars in processed foods that the body rapidly absorbs.

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And the stores I shop in have a basket by the door with a sign that says "FREE PIECE OF FRUIT FOR YOUR CHILD".