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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grocery store sales is attributable to SNAP? How long will it be before grocery stores start going under?

Depends on where you live. Rural America is hugely dependent on SNAP.

This story is about the cuts in the republican tax bill not cutting snap altogether. One store said 40% of sales were from SNAP



https://stateline.org/2025/06/02/gop-cuts-to-food-assistance-would-hit-rural-america-especially-hard/

Anonymous wrote:I know one Marylander who had $5000 on her benefit "card" and she flew to Miami to get a BBL. She used her work money to pay for the BBL and she took a month off from work to vacation in Miami. This was during Covid times. Meantime, she had $5000 of tax payer money built up on her benefit "card."

Surely if recipients can pay for plastic surgery in Miami and the surgeons require cash in advance the recipients should not be getting hard earned tax payer money.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grocery store sales is attributable to SNAP? How long will it be before grocery stores start going under?

They won’t. People will just have to use their own money for food instead of their EBT card

Anonymous wrote:I know one Marylander who had $5000 on her benefit "card" and she flew to Miami to get a BBL. She used her work money to pay for the BBL and she took a month off from work to vacation in Miami. This was during Covid times. Meantime, she had $5000 of tax payer money built up on her benefit "card."

Surely if recipients can pay for plastic surgery in Miami and the surgeons require cash in advance the recipients should not be getting hard earned tax payer money.

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Anonymous wrote:They'll have to get a job. Stop mooching.

SNAP has work requirements https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/work-requirements

Tell me about how those are enforced?
They aren’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Mom does drugs. Mom gets food from food bank. Mom has money to spend on drugs rather than food now. Someone will ALWAYS give you food. And if someone is always willing to give you food, that also means that you can spend your money on other things.

How does SNAP fraud work, since we are on the topic of SNAP being used in ways that it shouldn’t be: you go to the store with your EBT card and purchase something now allowed, but the cashier at the store rings is up as a food purchase and allows you to use the card (usually ringing up the items at more than their actual price). This is typically done at the corner and conveniences stores, not the big box stores. The smaller store you are, the more you can get away with.

And one more way: you go to the store and you offer to purchase someone’s food with your EBT card and you give them your cash instead of them handing the cash to the cashier. Many times, to make the deal better, the person with the EBT will offer to take LESS cash for the purchase, just so they can get the cash. You have $100 in groceries, EBT cardholder will pay for your groceries and then have you give them $75. Tada! Fraud.

Wanna know how ‘illegals’ are getting SNAP? Their kids. Kids were born here, they are US citizens. Parent’s aren’t. Family of 5 with two adults that are not citizens by there children that are? They will get SNAP for 3 people, the children. And it is absolutely impossible for the adults NOT to eat from that SNAP money. So in a roundabout way, the ‘illegals’ ARE getting SNAP.

$9.2 billion per month on SNAP, every month. That’s what taxpayers pay. Not the government. The government doesn’t have any money. They take money from the taxpayer.

The kids get free breakfast and lunch from school, but Mom gets the money in her SNAP to pay for breakfast and lunch. The illegals that have 3 kids, they get food money for three kids who eat free breakfast and lunch at school. The taxpayers have to budget food costs and medical co-pays and health insurance premiums.

Wow they did a REALLY good job convincing you poor people and 'illegals' are your real enemy.

Look at the data from Denmark on illegal aliens, and you'll see why people are upset. Poor people take a lot, and the issue is when do they take too much. My hunch is you cannot describe your line, which means you favor infinity aid to these people, which is unaffordable. We are way past that attitude.

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Anonymous wrote:Please send help, I had to eat "batch cooked slop" for lunch again today, not even fit for a SNAP recipient. Homemade carrot ginger soup, very cheap to make with carrots from Aldi (about 1.50 for a package), onions (1.50 from aldi), powdered ginger, and homemade broth (I save all my veggie scraps so basically free), plus a homemade roll (also super cheap to make).

Later on kid and I will enjoy a dinner of pasta and and more "slop", batch cooked pasta sauce from the freezer (base of canned tomato sauce plus ground beef, spices, as well as some other veggies I had laying around that I "snuck" in after roasting and pureeing, carrots, peppers, and onions).

I’ll take “Things Which Never Happened” for $1000, Alex.

You don’t think people batch cook from scratch and then eat the things they made?

Do your kids hate pasta by now?

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grocery store sales is attributable to SNAP? How long will it be before grocery stores start going under?

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grocery store sales is attributable to SNAP? How long will it be before grocery stores start going under?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mom does drugs. Mom gets food from food bank. Mom has money to spend on drugs rather than food now. Someone will ALWAYS give you food. And if someone is always willing to give you food, that also means that you can spend your money on other things.

How does SNAP fraud work, since we are on the topic of SNAP being used in ways that it shouldn’t be: you go to the store with your EBT card and purchase something now allowed, but the cashier at the store rings is up as a food purchase and allows you to use the card (usually ringing up the items at more than their actual price). This is typically done at the corner and conveniences stores, not the big box stores. The smaller store you are, the more you can get away with.

And one more way: you go to the store and you offer to purchase someone’s food with your EBT card and you give them your cash instead of them handing the cash to the cashier. Many times, to make the deal better, the person with the EBT will offer to take LESS cash for the purchase, just so they can get the cash. You have $100 in groceries, EBT cardholder will pay for your groceries and then have you give them $75. Tada! Fraud.

Wanna know how ‘illegals’ are getting SNAP? Their kids. Kids were born here, they are US citizens. Parent’s aren’t. Family of 5 with two adults that are not citizens by there children that are? They will get SNAP for 3 people, the children. And it is absolutely impossible for the adults NOT to eat from that SNAP money. So in a roundabout way, the ‘illegals’ ARE getting SNAP.

$9.2 billion per month on SNAP, every month. That’s what taxpayers pay. Not the government. The government doesn’t have any money. They take money from the taxpayer.

The kids get free breakfast and lunch from school, but Mom gets the money in her SNAP to pay for breakfast and lunch. The illegals that have 3 kids, they get food money for three kids who eat free breakfast and lunch at school. The taxpayers have to budget food costs and medical co-pays and health insurance premiums.

Wow they did a REALLY good job convincing you poor people and 'illegals' are your real enemy.

Anonymous wrote:Mom does drugs. Mom gets food from food bank. Mom has money to spend on drugs rather than food now. Someone will ALWAYS give you food. And if someone is always willing to give you food, that also means that you can spend your money on other things.

How does SNAP fraud work, since we are on the topic of SNAP being used in ways that it shouldn’t be: you go to the store with your EBT card and purchase something now allowed, but the cashier at the store rings is up as a food purchase and allows you to use the card (usually ringing up the items at more than their actual price). This is typically done at the corner and conveniences stores, not the big box stores. The smaller store you are, the more you can get away with.

And one more way: you go to the store and you offer to purchase someone’s food with your EBT card and you give them your cash instead of them handing the cash to the cashier. Many times, to make the deal better, the person with the EBT will offer to take LESS cash for the purchase, just so they can get the cash. You have $100 in groceries, EBT cardholder will pay for your groceries and then have you give them $75. Tada! Fraud.

Wanna know how ‘illegals’ are getting SNAP? Their kids. Kids were born here, they are US citizens. Parent’s aren’t. Family of 5 with two adults that are not citizens by there children that are? They will get SNAP for 3 people, the children. And it is absolutely impossible for the adults NOT to eat from that SNAP money. So in a roundabout way, the ‘illegals’ ARE getting SNAP.

$9.2 billion per month on SNAP, every month. That’s what taxpayers pay. Not the government. The government doesn’t have any money. They take money from the taxpayer.

The kids get free breakfast and lunch from school, but Mom gets the money in her SNAP to pay for breakfast and lunch. The illegals that have 3 kids, they get food money for three kids who eat free breakfast and lunch at school. The taxpayers have to budget food costs and medical co-pays and health insurance premiums.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll preface this by saying I don’t condone taking away the SNAP benefits. What I don’t understand is why every person interviewed in these articles has so many children. It’s always ‘a 21 year old single mother of 3’ or ‘she and her husband are both 25, unemployed, and expecting their first child.’ I totally understand that situations can change drastically, but it doesn’t seem to be the case here.

Idk…it just frustrates me because my husband and I want children, make good money, chose a modest townhome in an area people on this site look down on in anticipation of paying out the a$$ for childcare…and we still don’t feel financially comfortable having a child. I don’t understand why people are bringing kids into the world without a plan to feed them. It makes me angry. I know very few people with 3 or 4 kids.

It’s a good argument for making birth control and abortion free and readily accessible.

But republicans want women to have more kids. Oh…not THESE women.

Medicaid provides birth control, you can buy it OTC now too or condoms. Many states also have free birth control programs. Birth control is extremely accessible

Anonymous wrote:I’ll preface this by saying I don’t condone taking away the SNAP benefits. What I don’t understand is why every person interviewed in these articles has so many children. It’s always ‘a 21 year old single mother of 3’ or ‘she and her husband are both 25, unemployed, and expecting their first child.’ I totally understand that situations can change drastically, but it doesn’t seem to be the case here.

Idk…it just frustrates me because my husband and I want children, make good money, chose a modest townhome in an area people on this site look down on in anticipation of paying out the a$$ for childcare…and we still don’t feel financially comfortable having a child. I don’t understand why people are bringing kids into the world without a plan to feed them. It makes me angry. I know very few people with 3 or 4 kids.