Poll: Should EBT users be able to Purchase Junk Food with It?

[Meathead]

Borne of another thread, I am looking for a consensus on the matter. It's a simple straight-up yes or no.

 

[elektra]

There should be zero ebt. Give them food. A block a cheese, bread, milk, and hamburger. Maybe a multivitamin. Nothing else.

 

[rightwinger]

No

But I’d like to see a definition of what is included in junk food

 

[rightwinger]

There should be zero ebt. Give them food. A block a cheese, bread, milk, and hamburger. Maybe a multivitamin. Nothing else.

How about Road Kill and stuff fished out of a dumpster?

 

[Meathead]

How about Road Kill and stuff fished out of a dumpster?

Do you pay for that?

 

[justoffal]

There should be zero ebt. Give them food. A block a cheese, bread, milk, and hamburger. Maybe a multivitamin. Nothing else.

Those were the days....that actually worked pretty good.

 

[Dekster]

if it were up to me they would be able to buy anything they want with the money.

 

[justoffal]

if it were up to me they would be able to buy anything they want with the money.

Frankly that's the only way it's going to work.
If you try to stop them they will sell their card for $0.50 on the dollar and buy what they want anyway.

 

[elektra]

if it were up to me they would be able to buy anything they want with the money.

That is why it is not up to you

 

[lg325]

We got the block of cheese, powdered milk, Peanut butter, corn meal, flour, and a big bottle of vitamins. And a card to get free lunch at school.
Allowing to buy ''Junk Food'' Example- Fastfood, candy, sodas, deli food any processed food will add to their health problems. Fresh meat, fruit, vegetables only should be purchased.

This coming from someone who has been a recipient as a child. Me.

 

[Dekster]

Frankly that's the only way it's going to work.
If you try to stop them they will sell their card for $0.50 on the dollar and buy what they want anyway.

Dodgy convenience stores and the like certainly exploit people that way too.

My logic is pretty straight forward--these people still need laundry detergent, toilet paper and all sorts of crap not covered by it so let them us EBT and we should see less theft. Anyway, I don't begrudge people buying the food they want. I paid for some woman's shortage at the register today when her swipe left her owing $19 and some change she did not have. Doesn't matter to me if it was free-range organic avocados or malt liquor that left her short. I could afford to drop a twenty, it kept the line moving, she got what she came to get and life goes on.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Borne of another thread, I am looking for a consensus on the matter. It's a simple straight-up yes or no.

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No. They must purchase only healthy food. I'm sure that a lot of taxpayers are tired of supporting SNAP recipients who are four feet wide.


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[justoffal]

Dodgy convenience stores and the like certainly exploit people that way too.

My logic is pretty straight forward--these people still need laundry detergent, toilet paper and all sorts of crap not covered by it so let them us EBT and we should see less theft. Anyway, I don't begrudge people buying the food they want. I paid for some woman's shortage at the register today when her swipe left her owing $19 and some change she did
not have. Doesn't matter to me if it was free-range organic avocados or malt liquor that left her short. I could afford to drop a twenty, it kept the line moving, she got what she came to get and life goes on.

Yep I find myself doing that from time to time.
Mostly I just don't want to wait....lol

 

[Rawley]

if it were up to me they would be able to buy anything they want with the money.

Cigarettes and beer?

 

[justoffal]

Cigarettes and beer?

The sad part is when they are not allowed to get these things they will trade their card in for the cash which is a super abuse. You see it all the time at the markets around here.

 

[scruffy]

Those were the days....that actually worked pretty good.

Government cheese!

 

[Meathead]

Cigarettes and beer?

For that they swap at 50% of value.

 

[justoffal]

Government cheese!

I grew up on that stuff....
The old man had his own recipe for the canned meat. He would slice it into disks fry it up with onions and then serve it up on a couple pieces of white bread with a good slathering of mustard and mayo. I have to say it was quite tasty! It was probably horrible for your health but it sure hit the spot at the time.

 

[IM2]

In a nation that claims to be Christian, this question should not even be asked.

 

[Dekster]

Yep I find myself doing that from time to time.
Mostly I just don't want to wait....lol

Well it is a friday afternoon