If my taxes paying for food stamps means a few “scammers” fall through the cracks but a mother & baby are fed, I’ll sleep like an angel for the rest of my life
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Food stamps has a fraud rate of about 1%. It’s so stupid that people even worry about this.
What’s really ridiculous? Is the amount of theft due to skimming and scamming, which is not perpetrated by recipients, but by organized crime most of the time.
Anything that works at this scale has fraud. We have a political party build a case with what fraud they can find and making it look bigger than it is.
Exactly. We based our justice system on the notion that we'd rather a few guilty people go free, than a single innocent person be punished. Obvi we haven't done so well on that, but that's the goal. Same concept here. I'll happy fund a few lazy jerks if it helps so many others who really need it.
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Food stamps has a fraud rate of about 1%. It’s so stupid that people even worry about this.
What’s really ridiculous? Is the amount of theft due to skimming and scamming, which is not perpetrated by recipients, but by organized crime most of the time.
"Would they survive without it?"
"No"
"I'm ok with this. You can even raise the taxes a little more to feed more people"
"But that's YOUR money!"
"Yeah, but I have enough"
This isn't hard
"Everyone who needed to get fed got fed?"
"Yeah, but some dude took extras"
"Don't care. No one's starving"
food stamps aren’t primarily support for families with kids, they are funding for grocery store owners.
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