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Originally Posted by dellinger63
When a guy goes into a store and is able to turn in his stamps for cash he usually isn't going to invest that money. Hopefully he is buying cigarettes and liquor and not crack and a hot gun. Nonetheless it affects everyone and especially those footing the bill.
Then when Akmand the store owner turns in the $200 in stamps he gets cash. Of course since he didn't sell any food he is now able to be creative on paper diverting his 100% profit to fake distribution companies hopefully not in Iran or Syria. Multipy by a 100 people and he's pulling in $10K/Month with no taxes for counting money and mailing an envelope. Multiply that by number of stores and you get the idea. Another fine taxpayer-subsidized fiasco.
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Food "stamps" haven't been real coupons ("stamps) for some years now. Food assistance is a debit card with an amount loaded on by the government, and having a PIN set by the person getting the assistance. In grocery stores where the card is swiped, it will reject paying for non-food items (like toilet paper, guns, cigarettes, etc)
About the only way left to get cash for your food assistance now is to buy groceries with it, then stand in the parking lot trying to sell those groceries to others at half-price for cash out of your trunk (what they do at a local WalMart near where I live, and yes, illegal)