[Skybird]

I wish in Germany part of the social wellfare payments would be made not in money, but food stamps, and value stamps for school material, and stamps for other vital, essential purposes. So that payments would not get wasted for cigarettes, chips and soft drinks, and money meant to pay for school stuff for children does not get used to buy stuff for the adults. Stamps are a way to bind aid money to a certain purpose - the purpose it is dedicated for. And that in principle is a good thing.

But food stamps in Germany? It has been mentioned in past discussions here. The outcry always was about "social discrimination" and "right of self-determination".

Well, as long as you take other people's money for free, you live by their rules. Even more true when these rules are anything but "inhumane" or "excessive", but simply make sense and are reasonable.