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ReallyGraceful sez:
Soda Pop is among the top three items purchased by SNAP beneficiaries for two straight decades.
In 2024, 100 billion was spent on SNAP benefits, which means if we have 153 million citizens paying federal taxes, SNAP is costing the taxpayer $650 per year or around $50 per month to keep this scam going.
In my ignorance, I kind of thought that SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, was like WICK. And I knew a lady who was on WICK. I went grocery shopping with her. It's a government nutrition program for women, infants, and and children. And it was very strict. She could get really specific brands of milk and eggs and cheese and cereal and juice in exchange for a voucher at the cash register essentially. But no, that's not at all what SNAP is like.
To qualify for the SNAP supper club, your whole household has to keep gross income under $3,300 a month for a family of four, netting under $2,600. There are, of course, special accommodations made for disabilities and college students. And all you have to do to stay in the program is recertify your income once a year.
That same family of four can get up to $1,000 a month in SNAP benefits. You can even deduct your child care expenses or even the amount of child support you pay to make it seem like you have a lower income so that you get more money from the government every month. It's very misleading because SNAP is not food stamps. Not like I you think of food stamps at least. It's essentially a preloaded card that can buy pretty much anything at the grocery store, even online, and delivered to your house from Amazon or Instacart. from steaks to fresh fruit to vegetables to birthday cakes to Oreos and sodas and everything in between. The only items really off limits are things like alcohol, cigarettes, pet food, vitamins, medicines, and hot food items like rotisserie chicken. And it's all subsidized by the government, which means it's coming out of working people's paychecks.