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Originally Posted by CCIP
To play devil's advocate on the other hand - spending food stamps on these big ticket items helps subsidize expensive and risky or inefficient fishing and farming industries that otherwise wouldn't turn a profit and would probably end up losing quite a few jobs. So while it's unfair, from the regulators' perspective it's just another way to drive up demand for products most people otherwise wouldn't buy.
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see the problem is, it's artificially inflating a market again, something that IMO isn't really healthy for the economy.
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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
I LOVE IT when im in line behind the family with two shopping carts.
One full of food the other full of liquor and beer
food stuff was paid in food stamps
the other in cash
Yay America! 
happens all the time and its damn near impossible by now to do anything about it. |
oh yes, I remember a person who would get milk that had a $1.00 deposit on the bottles. They would dump out the milk in the bathroom or outside the store, return the 5 bottles for $5.00 and buy beer with it