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Fun fact: At least in Louisiana, possibly some other states as well, you can actually buy beer with SNAP benefits.
Not saying I approve of that, SNAP is intended to buy food and water, just saying that's a thing in some states. 🤷
Still, if I had SNAP benefits (I don't, but I have before), it's none of Turnip's business if I wanted to get a 6 pack of beer.
Isn't the point of SNAP to help people? If they need help with their bills, enough to need SNAP, who cares if they use it on beer once in a while. Nobody bats an eye at me for buying beer on the weekend, but suddenly if you receive SNAP assistance its an unholy sin to want to unwind after a long week? That doesn't jive with me.
The name of the program is called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Alcohol isn't needed for survival and is therefore outside the scope of that program. I'm actually quite surprised some states allow it to be used for booze.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, fwiw, just pointing out why most states don't allow it to be used for that.
It's the puritanical Christianity (no alcohol ever - there's a lot of people who want to go back to a more strict and all encompassing form of Prohibition) mixing with prosperity gospel Christianity (you can't be poor if God is happy with you, and poor people must be sinning or somehow wrong with God).
I doubt the issue would be a "once in a while" situation.
Ah, so if you receive SNAP and drink, you must be an alcoholic? Cause if you only drank socially, you wouldn't be poor?
If you need help covering your basic food intake, it’s a poor choice to spend it on a “luxury”. Or if you can afford to waste money on a luxury, you clearly don’t need help with your basic food intake take.
Yeah that ignores that people aren’t machines, but there’s a logic to it, ven without blaming it on puritanism
You're forgetting that alcohol is also a vice. It's a known variable that even in times of strife and uncertainty, vice still sells — if not more so. They're commenting on the embedded messaging of too-poor-to-deserve-it that fosters divisiveness among us poors.
Having worked in a retail environment that sells food, I have been told they can’t be used for hot prepared food. This is California. Somehow I am seeing fast food restaurants display signs saying they accept EBT now.
This is true in Mississippi as well, you can't use SNAP benefits to buy hot food.
I have however heard that some locations manage to circumvent this by technically selling the food while still cold before it's cooked, then going ahead and cooking it for you anyways.
[A large chain grocery brand] in a number of cities along the West Coast is known to do this, though I hesitate to make that widely known, in case that risks it continuing. 🙇🏽♂️
Maybe there is a lot of Sumerians in Louisiana?