Food stamps could be much less… this is the same all over the world, the US is not the only place where someone has done the ‘how well can I live on the dole’ experiment — in Germany, Thilo Sarrazin (then Finance minister of Berlin) did exactly the same test with his wife, with very much the same result: they were extremely well fed for much less than the dole handout. He even published a cook book (the first book he was hated for!) before his famous ‘Germany abolishes itself’ book).
But, the actual problem is that the ‘customers’ often are not able to plan and cook.
This is why there is the extra payment in the handout — so that people who are not smart can buy things they know they can eat — KFC is not as cheap as cooking. And the fact that cooking has turned into a posh foodie hobby doesn’t help the people who would need to be able to cook the most.
So, I would be against food stamps(or cash handouts), offer personalized soup kitchen/fast food vouchers instead, this gets everyone fed to a basic standard, which is the actual goal here. We have plenty of McDonalds(KFC,etc) everywhere, why not use them!
The lefty idea that we should use welfare to ‘educate’ people into self-responsibility is insane — the sad fact is, that we have lots of people who are barely functional, and giving them money/food stamps they cannot use properly (and end up drugged/starving/robbed) is not help at all but sabotage — sometimes teaching a man to fish ends up getting them drowned!
