Take soda out of food stamp elgibility?

**Rocky** · October 12th, 2010, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Jason

Do people actually by drugs with coke products?

yep. and cigarettes i used to hear about it alot and actually see it happen

**VHSLhelper** · October 12th, 2010, 06:05 PM

trading coke for drugs just doesn't sound right.
(think about it)
Seriously, WTF? Why would a drug seller deal for 6-packs? Is he just too lazy to take the cash and go to the store? I don't get it.
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Isn't milk fattening? Why not make it so food stamps can't be used for "regular" soda or whole milk, but is OK for diet pop and 2% milk? Or is diet pop just as bad?

**imported_elp6n** · October 12th, 2010, 06:08 PM

As I understand it, the folks that are doing this generally sell the sodas and use the cash for whatever it is they really want (cigarettes, alcohol ....)
Sodas are cheap, they sell easy, practically everyone drinks them.

**VHSLhelper** · October 12th, 2010, 06:34 PM

Is there an advantage? Is it a different class crime if money is not used, but goods are? I just see it as being more work for the dealers, plus they're committing another crime if they don't charge and report sales tax, so that's another arm of the law they could run afoul with. Just doesn't make sense to me to create more work and possibly more hassle without some advantage somewhere.

**imported_elp6n** · October 12th, 2010, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by VHSLhelper

Is there an advantage? Is it a different class crime if money is not used, but goods are? I just see it as being more work for the dealers, plus they're committing another crime if they don't charge and report sales tax, so that's another arm of the law they could run afoul with. Just doesn't make sense to me to create more work and possibly more hassle without some advantage somewhere.

It's just another way to get cash from your food stamps instead of using the benefits for their intended purpose. Sell the goods you bought legally with your food stamp benefits. It's not necessarily food stamp fraud but it is food stamp abuse. If you gave your card to someone to use instead (skirting the need to sell what you bought) then that's food stamp fraud.

**imported_elp6n** · October 12th, 2010, 07:10 PM

If some folks put as much effort into earning an honest living as they do trying to defraud the system of welfare benefits they'd be wealthy...

**yankeebaseball** · October 12th, 2010, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by imported_elp6n

It's just another way to get cash from your food stamps instead of using the benefits for their intended purpose. Sell the goods you bought legally with your food stamp benefits. It's not necessarily food stamp fraud but it is food stamp abuse. If you gave your card to someone to use instead (skirting the need to sell what you bought) then that's food stamp fraud.

no, thats fraud.

**Rocky** · October 13th, 2010, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by VHSLhelper

Is there an advantage? Is it a different class crime if money is not used, but goods are? I just see it as being more work for the dealers, plus they're committing another crime if they don't charge and report sales tax, so that's another arm of the law they could run afoul with. Just doesn't make sense to me to create more work and possibly more hassle without some advantage somewhere.

not everyone that sales drugs/trades drugs is a full time drug dealer. there are a lot of people that just trade the **** off for whatever they can get.