Hope this is not off-topic. The entire ‘Food Stamp’ program in it’s various forms is a subsidy to help farmers by keeping demand high. You pay less for food because everybody’s tax dollars funds these programs. I suppose the benefit of feeding people who need food is an unintentional consequence. I know it’s largely children who have the greatest need for that and since they’re non-productive members of society it seems like a bigger ripoff of the taxpayer but no government program is perfect.
Feeding kids is not a rip-off of the public and I’m going to split this off.
Talk about a hijack.
Didn’t pick up that as satire did you?
Well, now what?
You think people wanting to eat food is a government plot?
Poe’s Law strikes again.
It’s 2024. It’s pretty much impossible to say something so ridiculous that it goes beyond the things Republicans are actually saying.
Sad but true.
Joke or not, that thread did not need another hijack and you knew it was one. Please refrain.
I tend to think of it as a general subsidy on the price of food. At the beginning of the month, there can be days where over 50% of our revenue is EBT. Just imagine what would happen to food prices if that money went away and stores had to find another way to remain profitable.
Your “joke” is told by far too many who treat it as if it was reality…which renders it absolutely useless.
There are huge government food subsidy programs that aren’t some left-wing liberal scheme to give poor people tax dollars. These programs exist because they are heartily supported by the reddest of Red States because it channels tax dollar back to them. I think it was entirely on-topic in the other thread.
As long as this was just an ill-timed joke, I’ll close it.