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[QUOTE="worlock77"] It isn't free. And the person stocking the shelves or packaging the food didn't do it for free ether. The person packaging it is paid by his company. The packaged food is then bought by the store, so the store pays the company for the packaged food. The store then pays our stockboy to put the packaged food on the shelf. Later a person buys that packaged food with their food stamps. The food stamps are nothing more than a voucher. The store agrees to participate in the program, and thus allows the person to leave the store with the food despite not yet receiving any money for that food. The store is latter monetarily reimbursued for the value of the food stamps. In this sense it is no different than the store redeeming a "free drink" coupon from a Coca-Cola promotion. And, of course, the food stamp program is funded by taxes which the food stamp recipient may or may not have paid into at one point or another. worlock77
It is completely different from a company coupon. The government is not a company. This does not stimulate the economy. The customers are taking stores products. The government is giving money to the stores, which it took from the American people. Everyone has less. And if it grows more people will have less.Are you an idiot? That's a serious question.
I said nothing about "stimulating the economy". My post was in response to your idiotic notion that the stockboy is working for free because of food stamps. What's that you say? The government is not a company? No sh*t. Looks like the point flew about 10 miles over your head. The food stamp program is a voucher program. In that sense it does function the same as other voucher programs such as a Coca-Cola "free drink" promotion. The customer presents the voucher (be it a Link Card, or a coupon or a bottle cap or whatnot) to the business. The business (if it has agreed to participate in the program) allows the customer to have the product despite not getting any money for the product at that moment. The business then redeemds the voucher to the program's sponsor who then pays the business the value of the voucher. This is what a voucher program is. This is how voucher programs work.
You are so much more... The context of this thread is to stimulate the economy. The people* in this thread think more government is more jobs = more good. Which is insane. And you whatever you speak of relates to said people. You cannot make me believe you know what you're talking about when you post in a topic about 80 thousand job loss and state, "I said nothing about stimulating the economy, Nah!"There is no risk in the government providing food stamps to people. There is risk with a company doing this with an ad or coupons. Profit verse protection. How do they relate? They don't. It's not similar in no function. The stock boy puts food on the shelves and some of his worked time is for free. He doesn't get paid for the work he does that gets taken away by food stamps. Get it? Of course he does get "paid" but it's not by his employer. Nor is the employer getting paid by those customers.
I don't give a care if you think you've worked your way out of a bad system that allows the government go deeper into debt. Taxes should be raised on everyone to allow these government programs. Not keep "borrowing" from the Fed. This way people know what is good to keep and what is not.
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