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You have no idea what you are talking about. There haven't been " stamps" to pay for food for decades.
The SNAP program for food assistance uses what looks like a credit card ... not "stamps" . It is a holdover misnomer.
Any illegal purchases would show up immediately in the purchase record and retailers would be admonished and fined.
The worst that can happen is that a SNAP participant can buy food with their SNAP card and sell it at a discounted price to someone who is not on the program...OMG someone who can't afford full price food gets to eat! What an abuse!
The fact is that the recent SNAP program cuts the republicons passed took food out of the mouths of 170,000 Veterans and 5000 veteran families. A full 47% of the people who will be receiving less food now are children under 18 and 9% are senior citizens...
Aren't you proud?
Yeah I know what the "SNAP" program is - here in Illinois we call them "link cards."
What you fail to realize is that these fools with "SNAP" cards sell their cards for half of what they're worth and in many inner city bodegas (corner stores) those who own and run those joints have absolutely no problem charging someone for 5 dollars worth of groceries in exchange for a bottle of beer while they stick those groceries right back on the shelf...
If seen it happen for YEARS... It's just a basic circumvention of the program - or what progressives would call a "loophole"...
To make matters worse no democrat alderman or legislators give a **** about it...