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I'd rather a hundred people get benefits they "don't need" than have one person go without the support they require.
Not that it's even happening, but even if it were I really wouldn't care even a little bit. And furthermore, food stamp benefits are pathetic in the US.
I remember some Republican chud or another saying they'd rather have innocent people imprisoned than let a single criminal walk free. Absolutely cannot fathom that mindset. Completely ghoulish.
I mean i can imagine it, it's just patently anti-American. Benjamin Franklin is widely quoted as saying "I'd rather let 100 guilty persons go, than imprison one innocent person."
No, that was William Blackstone. Maybe Ben Franklin also quoted it, but he's not the one who was famous for it.
Guess who said they're fine having legal Hispanic citizens abducted from their homes and thrown in ~~SS~~ ICE camps if it means they're actually getting some illegal immigrants
They honestly waste more resources on gatekeeping and means testing than they would ever save, and it'd LITERALLY cost less to just provide the same baseline benefits to everyone
Yeah, why aren't we talking about all the fraud committed by billionaire oligarchs and trump and his inner circle?
Like maybe 25 years back I remember a viral video of someone in Cali or something buying a lobster with his food stamps and everyone was freaking out. I dont know much of the american food stamps system but I'm pretty sure just blew his budget or something. Really its just proved some idiot was doing dumb stuff for likes before TikTok.
Generally, any food product is going to be eligible. They give you a bank card that has your monthly funds on it. Prepared products such as from the delicatessen, alcohol, and cigarettes will be blocked but there's not much else to stop someone from letting their benefits add up and then wasting them on something like lobster.
You don't want to make this entire thing onerous for everyone, so there will be some activity like this occassionally. It's not even something that would appear outside the statistical noise.
I was on SNAP several years ago. We saved a small bit of the relatively meager amount every month for like 6 months, then had a really nice BBQ for my kids bday. In a vacuum, I'm sure someone would have lost their shit watching me spend like $150 on steaks and burgers and sides using my SNAP card.
The only reason thats any different than just saving your own regular money for it and blowing that on the exact same thing is the optics.
Like if you get the bennies, its not like people know that every single time you buy stuff, only when you use that specific payment method
This is literally just the '80s "welfare queen" lie.
The same people who believed that in their 20s when Reagan said it are now in their late 60s and early 70s. You can see the problem.
luxury vehicles
What do you want to bet they’re talking about poorly maintained 15+ year old lexuses and 30+ year old bmws? Just kidding, it’s most likely entirely unfounded.
I'd go even further and say that they are classifying vehicles themselves as a luxury, not even the make or model.
They're trying to bring back Welfare Queens. I'm sure almost everyone's forgotten, but this was the kind of accusation that led to Welfare being viewed so negatively and eventually being renamed entirely.
Dude, it seems everything the GOP claims lacks evidence.
Have you seen what the MAGAtards do when confronted by evidence? They say it's all either fake news or AI. They're a cult and cults don't require evidence to maintain their beliefs.
The "fraud" they're talking about is Black people being allowed to access food.
I know someone on SNAP benefits. She drives a 25 year old Buick Lesabre with over 200,000 miles on it . Technically it’s a “luxury car,” which she got for $800.
Their stats are bullshit, spun in such a way as to churn up resentment towards the poorest , so the wealthiest can bilk more money from the middle.
“In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES!” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins posted on X last week
It should be noted that in some states (most? No idea), the value of your car and house don’t count against your application for food stamps. Which makes perfect sense when you consider that you would have to be a fucking moron to sell your home or car to eat, since after you eat you either have nowhere to sleep or no way to get to work independently. A “high value” (read: not a shitcan) car can also be more dependable than a junker, may vary by brand of course.
Anyway, anyone who has ever wanted to police food stamps is going to hell.
Plus that person could be swimming in payments but needs the reliable car or safe house to do as you mentioned.
It also doesn’t define “LUXURY VEHICLE”
The banged up crossover SUV that came with CarPlay and OnStar so your insurance and the government can track your every move could be considered a LUXURY because CONNECTIVITY
Guys, poor people are forced to buy the only things we’ll sell to them. How come they never try not being poor? Lazy!
I have a 2008 Infiniti. It's a luxury vehicle that I paid $5k for and runs like it's been smoking cigarettes the past 20 years.
Watch they are going to fight to increase restrictions on SNAP benefit "handouts", but a ton of rich people fraudulently took out COVID loans, actually bought cars, never paid them back, and there is legit evidence but they were never prosecuted.
The new slogan for America should be: Protect the fellow rich, beat the poor down into dust.
I got a call from the food bank thanking me for donating. She said the demand is shocking now. They don't have enough. She was all "don't worry we're just calling to thank you, not to ask for more, just keeping you updated." I shudder to think how much worse it will get by the time these gouls are through. I'll keep donating while I can, I suggest everyone else do the same. Donating money goes the farthest because the banks have deals with supermarkets and stuff.
I would rather 5 people abuse it than 1 person go hungry, but maybe I'm just civilized?
Either way we should attempt to curtail abuse, but with credit+debit+tax returns we could effectively combat egregious cases of abuse.
Go after the real welfare queens. The Walton family, Elon Musk, the oil and gas industry. Big corporate farming. Ending subsidies for oil and gas alone would pay for Medicare for all
I feel like "luxury vehicles" is the same buzzword as "assault weapons." A meaningless buzzword to evoke emotion.
What's a "luxury vehicle?" What's the cutoff? Are they in a nicer Honda or a Lotus? Seeing as how this country's citizens are famously one illness or ouchie away from financial ruin, did they purchase this vehicle before or after needing assistance? Are they still making payments or is it paid off?
Facts and hard criteria or GTFO with this nonsense.
It's literally just trying to goad the struggling to pull the rug from the destitute, while the rich pop their champaign and laugh. It's class warfare rhetoric to take the heat off the Epstein class, and anybody falling for it is a damned fool.
The Tax Evasion and Avoidance of billionaires is many times the entire budget of this kind of thing.
You could literally make up for 100% fraud in things like food stamp by making somebody like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos pay the same effective tax rate as everybody else.
Even if these claims from the far-right of widespread fraud and abuses in social security were true, they would still be like distracting people from a raging forest fire by waving a sparkler.
The Gang of Pedos has never let something as trivial as evidence guide their world view. Also not big fans of consent.
Businesses not paying workers fair wages like Walmart forcing 1.6 million by themselves to take public assistance like food support is going to effect a ton of people and be a huge draw on the system compared to any other fraud on the system.
26.8% of 41.7 million is 11 million people. How much do you want to bet they can't find 11 hundred people committing fraud against the system like employers are.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/14/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-us/
Tax payers subsidizing corporations to further exploit tax payers
Even if you had 14,000 SNAP recipients driving “luxury vehicles” in every state that is still less than 2% of all beneficiaries nation wide.
Food assistance keeps people productive. Even a capitalist should advocate for it.
this is exactly the welfare queen thing from the 80's. The myth is a black woman from the inner city, the reality was a white farmer bilking the system.
Someone driving a hand me down 90s Lincoln worth $2500 isn't exactly what I'd call luxurious.
The real welfare queens are projecting again.
An old friend from college is now trying to live on $1800 a month from Social Security--in Southern California. She just found out, she will get $24 a month in SNAP, and she had to wade through bureaucracy even for that.
Keep the poors poor, working shit jobs or kill them off if they can't work. That's a Christian Nation, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
Better give the orange dotard regime an extra $600mil they don’t need nor even requested for the ballroom bunker, just to show the peasants where our true priorities lie.
Republicans claim a lot of things without proof, and the illiterate masses eat it up.
There's also no knowing what folks had when the floor fell out from under them. That Escalade might have been half paid off when they lost their source of income. Conservatives've been on this same bullshit for decades.
It's a fucking excuse to make fuck-you-got-mine policies.
When I lived in a poor area I saw a ton of luxury vehicles but they were a decade older than most non-luxury cars and were beat to shit. I'd believe the numbers but I don't think they say what this idiot is implying.
Its demoralizing that this type of messaging resonates with such a large portion of Americans, honestly.
And if there is widespread food stamp fraud I am willing to bet 1k that it comes from Republicans.
Musk is not a problem for them or the other 88 companies dodging taxes last year right.
Republicans claim widespread food stamp fraud. What's missing? ~~Evidence~~ Food stamp fraud.
I fixed the headline.
A remix of the old welfare queen lie. smh. Some guy probably used his mom's food stamps card to get fast food once and they're going to make it seem like a billion dollars in theft.
The "luxury vehicle" angle is clearly a scam, but there is evidence of SNAP fraud, at least here in Oregon, it's just being done with card skimmers stealing legitimate SNAP data and funds from the people who need it most:
"How the scam works
Scammers place an overlay device on card readers or keypads, often at smaller retailers such as dollar stores or community markets.
These devices look nearly identical to real machines but secretly collect card numbers and PINs.
Stolen card data is then used in other states to purchase high-demand items like baby formula or resold goods"
The fix for this should be simple: EBT funds should only be accessible in the state where the card was issued.
The fix for this should be simple: EBT funds should only be accessible in the state where the card was issued.
The solution to robbing from poor people should not be robbing them of more of their benefit.
Love to hear this kind of bullshit while we drain trillions into the pockets of war-pigs.