Is there any reason why instead of food stamps or EBT the government can't just give poor people food?

Is there any reason why instead of food stamps or EBT the government can't just give poor people food?

Like for each welfare-dependent family, provide them a week's worth of food (accounting for things like documented food allergies of course) based on how many people live in the house.

It'd cut down on burdening the health care system by providing balanced meals, and it boosts local agriculture as well (more people eating tomatoes means more tomatoes get sold, for example).

People could sell the food I guess, but since they already do that with food stamps I don't see much of a difference there.

I'm sure it isn't a feasible idea, because if it were it would have been implemented. But why isn't it feasible?

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They have to know what to do with the food, McDonalds is already prepared

Because delivering fresh food is more expensive than a piece of paper

That's literally food rationing.

Because no one wants the responsibility of designing a standardized food basket to use, let alone a personalized one.

Much better to just you an EBT and let the person decide what to get with it.

Michelle Obama should do it!

You don't understand what EBT is for.

It's not to feed people it's to subsidize the food production industry and buy votes from niggers.

Also giving rationed food packets would be more expensive than allowing people to buy what they need (if the program was actually meant to feed people).

Things like Obama's school lunch replacement is a good example, someone will eventually cut funds and therefore cut quality of the food, likely to the point where just offering the EBT program would not only be preferable, but also likely to feed people better even if they buy luxury food items like Booze and Candy.

We should just impose a 6-month limit on receiving food stamps.

If you can't get a job and provide for yourself in that time you I don't want to feed you.

So communism for the takers, capitalism for the makers? Where's the problem with that?

silly billy, you can't smoke food

DEM LOGISTICS BRUH!

I don't think you should be able to buy soda and shit with it honestly. Just basic things you need to survive.

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>Is there any reason why instead of food stamps or EBT the government can't just give poor people food?


It is not a socialist nation

I've always thought that instead of a blank check FS program we should switch to a company based participation. For example. Say Kellogg agrees to give a percentage of their food for free, as well as grocery chains store and process said food, and transportation companies agree to transport for free. In return the Govt gives substantial tax breaks and the business get x amount of free advertising, as well as the good will advertising for helping the "poor". This would cut down massively on govt spending and taxing non poor for it. In addition only nutritional food would be eligible. No soda, no, overly sugary snacks etc. Any thought?

instead of providing money or food we should give out ounces of marijuana.

the poorest person out there would finally be forced to learn fractions and basic measuring systems.

it would force a barter and trade economy amongst the poor, where the most industrialist among them can literally 'grow' more money if they put in the effort.

a marijuana based welfare economy would also have the added benefit of a less violent poor people and would promote interest in gardening and personal well being.

whats not to like, find the flaw!

soda companies lobby millions to keep EBT allowed to buy soda.

Lots of corner stores have EBT from like 6-7 family members, and use them to buy the things they then stock in the store and re-sell.

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Everything I needed to know about the state of welfare in America, I learned from this song.

You could kill someone with allergies to gluten, fish or nuts.

Just give them Soylent. Complete nutrition just add water.

Soylent black

Enough niggers are killed by other niggers each year to sustain a tolerable black population in the US.

If you run low on food, you're welcome to some native Australian delicacies.

Because the government would have to produce the food itself, package the food, ensure the food is safe, monitor food consumption, document all the other shit that goes along with it. MUCH MORE costlier.

Instead, documented financial need, drug testing, and some education on balanced nutrition should should be tested.

And best yet poverty faggots won't be crowding market places.

Give them nothing.

when you see them in bj's or costco buying huge amounts of bottled water and gatorade you can rest assured they're selling it in their gas station.

Food pantries do this, and much better. This sort of thing is far easier in a local scale.

>allergies to gluten
You're a fucking retard.
>kill someone allergic to fish or nuts
>they're on food stamps
Win win.

What about people who are disabled? They get maybe 700-800 on avg depending on location.
Rent in most areas is 500 minimum PLUS utilities. Conservative utility use is maybe 60-80 a month, so thats almost 600 dollars right there leaving 100 for food. Could you do that?

They can be fined or thrown in jail for this, if you wanted to be a complete cunt you could report them.

There's already infrastructure in place to deliver food in exchange for credit and competitive profit margins. Now you want to create some state managed parallel commie distribution system that will inevitably prove less efficient and more expensive which will ultimately impose crushing regulations and price controls on free market competitors to refuse acknowledgment of the failure of communism yet again and curtail political embarrassment because why exactly?

Are you some kind of fucking commie. Do you have a problem with fee for service.

Candy is allowed also. Saw a ton of that when I was a cashier. You're also allowed to complete a transaction with EBT. Then start another transaction for a huge flatscreen and use your credit card.

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see archive link. EBT fraud is rampant. IMO, a way to keep poor people down. No work = no sense of pride. No sense of pride = generations of people on welfare.

>realizing that ebt is socialism
>tries to fix the problem with more socialism

if i'm getting free money for food you're damn right that i'm buying potato chips and lobster

It puts the makers at a disadvantage. They have to support them self and everyone else who doesn't work, while taking the risks that it takes to be a trail blazer. See the problem there?

Or they just don't participate and niggers spend tax dollars on snickers bars and sweet tea.

There is a reason they say refugees are a walking business opportunity

they used to
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i remember my grandma had this stuff, it wasn't bad as i recall

distributing money is much easier and has much less overhead than distributing food. please fuck off back to high school

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It does until the bread shortages. Everyone's a capitalist during a bread shortage.

>whats not to like, find the flaw
marijuana, unlike gold, is perishable

What gets me is when they pull out a wad of cash to pay off what food stamps didn't.

It's called WIC.

Here's an easy solution anons I've been saying this for years. Fucking abolish warefair and let the monkeys starve. Guaranteed they'll find a fucking job so they can continue to eat chickens and waffermellin

Either this or mandatory sterilization if you want to collect gibs.

It should be very, very east to implement a healthy food program for EBT recipients. It would simply limit what can be purchased with EBT to basic staples and produce. No more frozen chicken nuggets, by a whole fresh chicken and some rice and broccoli instead, for the same cost. There are way too many fatties on EBT today. Even kids, who have been raised on EBT their entire lives, are fat already. That should never happen on the taxpayer's dime. We're not only keeping a leach on society alive, we're making it more costly by funding the inevitable fat people health problems.

How, with my idea? It's not tax payer funded. It's just incentivised for the corporations. And not all products would be eligible. Hostess for example, would not be allowed to participate as they only produce junk cakes. Zero nutritional value.

>We'll call it..."Marmite"

good thing it doesn't matter what you want, fellow.

I dont want to pay to put your little shitlord offspring through school.

in what world does a whole chicken, an entire broccoli stock, and a bag of raw whole rice cost the same as a 4 dollar bag of tendies , nigger/

>added benefit of a less violent poor people
>whats not to like, find the flaw!

The flaw is you are fucking retarded.

I'd love to see unemployed forcefully hired by the federal government, I.e. manufacture for military infrastructure or labor, etc. Rinse/repeat at state and county level.

You might not employ everyone but it'd definitely be a fair amount better than just giving shit away, state deducts daycare fee from single moms labor as well, god I'd labor the fuck out of people and have them pick trash off city roads.

>implying you can't get fat as fuck on rice

It's calories in vs calories out. The only way to ensure there are no fat people on EBT is if you actually pay someone to knock on doors and weigh folks.

Like cheese? we tried that, it didn't work so well

I'm in.

Where do I sign my name?

>worked at a Papa Murphys in college
>because the food isnt cooked the company accepts EBT
>EBT license expires for two days
>niggers and white trash literally threw a chair through our window

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I guarantee you, whatever scheme you can come up with to make niggers eat healthy? They will find a way to circumvent it. Gibs is gibs. And you either gibsdemsome or not.

Here is my question to Libertarians:

Why should I care about the system? What is wrong with running deficits when I know that it will never be paid back?

For Gods sakes folks, the only bank account that matters is your bloody own. So long as you have a balanced budget that is all that matters. If you are low-income you should encourage yourself and your friends to get on welfare to facilitate the collapse of the elite.

Yeah, reporting them for misusing our fucking tax money is being a cunt. Are you a nigger?

1) You need distribution centers.
2) Welfare queens are too lazy to go there anyway.

those companies' tax burdens don't even come close to the costs they'd have to endure to make such a program viable.

grocery industry has pretty tight margins.

I have EBT... I would vote against it if it came up... but I'm not going to let my pride get in the way of something they give to foreign invaders.

I would rather contribute to the collapse than feed shitskins without my cut

>Is there any reason why instead of food stamps or EBT the government can't just give poor people food?

Walmart to start with...

Are you ready to rage?

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the ebt racket provides one important benefit - an early redpill for those of us forced to have shitty grocery jobs in our teens

>throw them in jail for being entrepreneurs.

the costs of housing someone in the klink for 6 months FAR outweigh the costs of EBT.

legalize drugs...legitimizes that income and they're no longer be eligible for EBT.

>congrats you just caused a recession.
you're undercutting the vast private sector that already provides for those needs, do so better and also make income which can then be taxed.

That's what they do with Indians in a lot of places, just send them government generic staples

Legalizing weed and soft drugs like DMT would pay for all foreign wars and healthcare times a thousand.

Because they won't accept it, because it's not about getting food, it's about getting gibs to spend on liquor and snacks and shit.

Month ago I saw a homeless man outside my office with a sign saying 'need money for food'. Decided to be a decent guy and bought an extra sandwich and chips when I went out for lunch, but when I offered it to him he told me to fuck off and spat in my face.


Got him back though...

Because then they wouldn't be able to sell their EBT cards to people for drugs.

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>shitty grocery jobs in our teens
Slow down, gramps. Those jobs go to adult POCs these days.

EBT is a wealth transfer exercise, presumably to get people used to communism. Taking tax payer money and giving it to big corporations like Walmart.

EBT is all about subsidizing grocers and food producers, without ebt half the grocery would close and prices would be much higher for everyone.

This is done already through WIC. The cards have monthly totals of food products and swiping the card deducts the amount (9 cans of fruit left on your card). WIC is only used for single moms with children though but the idea is the same as yours as it allows kids to eat good food as opposed to EBT.

“Put me in charge ...

Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your “home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,” consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.”

Alfred W. Evans, Gatesville, TX.

>pro benefits politician gets elected
>people buy raw food products with ebt, set up tents and stalls at events to sell food
>make profit with no overhead
>vote for pro benefit politicians
>neither see any need to change

the govt isn't a fucking supermarket

Chapter Jackson is satire, she even has a song about how Obama isn't creating jobs. She is pointing out the flaws of the system, unfortunately not many people read the video descriptions where it clearly says "Satire".

Over 40% of the edible food produced in America is wasted. What would be so wrong with just giving it to people who need it?

>he told me to fuck off and spat in my face.

did you call the cops? cause that's misdo assault

I like some of those ideas

-IRL Democrat

>hungry, gib food pl0x
>ok, here's some food friend
>fuck off I didn't want food
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Why do they do this? If they want a few bucks for liquor or something JUST SAY SO.

There are metric tons of white people on welfare.
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They'll figure it out when they get hungry enough

it's a transportation and distribution issue...plus food we've already taken big bits out of.

They can be exempt, able bodied people can work or starve.

not an argumente

It's wasted in our trashcans, so if you want to start a service that goes dumpster diving for the homeless then be my guest

It's impossible to directly place that food into the mouths of the needy due to the way it is wasted in the first place

Taking 40% of our food production for the needy would fuck everything up

Im also not a fan of subsidizing failure

It's easier to distribute

Niggers & rednecks sell EBT cards to illegals & injuns, so they can get money to buy drugs, cigs, opioids & booze.

You didn't put any effort into this at all, did you? At the last mile level, they pour literally put it in the dumpster behind the store and pour bleach on it. What now? Why couldn't a food back just come pick it up? Why destroy it?
You too, they make it so the food banks can't use it. And you're not subsidizing anything just not destroying excess production.
Not sure what that has to do with anything.

I do this a lot, only had one guy ever turn anything down...said he didn't drink coffee...most folks have been really grateful.

You can't use your EBT card to rent a safety deposit box in a bank. That's bullshit.

I agree they can have my moldy leftovers and produce that I don't eat after it's gone bad.

Why do I as a maker need to give to a taker?

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