What Are Limitations On EBT Cards? Apparently None on Red Bull's/Candy

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I understand you can't force people to buy certain things,

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Like hell you can't

If the card has a cash benefit added to the food stamp benefit,they can use it for anything they want(maybe not tobacco or alcohol,but they can get cash at the ATM and buy it that way).

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I was wondering why people weren't piling on with you here but then I saw this

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FWIW she was white

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The government should eliminate EBT cards and go back to giving people cheap arse food directly. Remember government cheese?

The point of welfare is to keep people and their kids from going hungry, that's it. It's not supposed to be a way of life or enjoyable, it's supposed to be a temporary measure.

If you don't like the crappy arse government food handouts, go get a job.

Just as a side note, here in Georgia groceries are charged at a lower sales tax rate than other products.

This seems like a reasonable idea, I mean food is a necessity and not having much of a sales tax on it seems like it would help poor people the most.

Only thing is the definition of 'groceries' is pretty generous.

The reason I know this is because a few years ago I was in a Target or something and bought some various things including a bag of Skittles or something and I noticed on the receipt the Skittles were charged sales tax at the lower 'groceries' rate.

The Department of Revenue's website also has to state IN BOLD that candy and soda count as groceries, I guess people keep reporting it as something that needs fixing.

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it almost seems like if you receive money from the State to help with the cost of groceries, it should be restricted from sugary energy drinks and candy, both with zero nutritional value

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I totally agree. And with nearly all items having a UPC it shouldn't be hard (after changing laws and regulations) to modify the software to exclude certain items from EBT eligibility.

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It is supposed to be necessity not luxury and food stamps should be severely limited.

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Yup. Food stamps should be limited to beans, rice, bread, eggs, and milk. Enough so that you can survive, but also bad enough to where you don't want to be on them forever.

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But a question for liberals, what's wrong with going back to having a few "commodity" food banks around town.

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I heard their argument to this years ago from a liberal on the radio. He said they needed to have the La Purchase card so they wouldn't look like second class citizens when they are in the store buying stuff. They want to look like everyone else using a credit card.