the_dunk_tank

I heard a lady ranting about these same fake anecdotes a few years ago and finally interrupted to tell her, look, I'm on food stamps, and it's not nearly enough, and the restrictions are so arbitrary and punitive that you can't even get hot food, and if you wanted to trade SNAP benefits for drugs you wouldn't get very many drugs at all. She said, "Oh, I wasn't talking about you, because you're educated." Even when they think they're dialing it back they manage to go in weirder, even more offensive directions. Needless to say, she had no idea how much education I may or may not have had.

"I have seen homeless who buy bottled water on SNAP only to dump and resell the bottles so they could get cash for their addictions"

1. You didn't see that, you saw a viral video of a black person dumping out water in a parkinglot and everyone told you it was an EBT scam. Just because you see it shared on the internet does not mean it's common.

2. Maybe the solution is to help their addictions rather than just throw them cash they can only use to buy ramen and bottled water. You don't nuke or means test a helpful program just because you fail to address another issue.

Getting a new iPhone by selling milk money credits. Dumping water for nickel returns on CRV.

Of all the things that didn't happen, these things didn't happen the most.

Unfortunately they'll never realize the actual solution to this alleged abuse is to just give everyone like $300/month in food stamps.

If everyone is food secure, selling the food at a discount for cash becomes very difficult.