Universal Basic Income

[sanantone]

I too experienced the same thing, I opened up a cell phone store within a grocery store selling phones to illegal aliens. These people were living like kings with their food stamps. The thing was for them is to have as many anchor babies as possible and the amount of benefits their kids get are enormous. They also bought ridiculous amounts of steak's and were eating like kings. I would see them buy people food with their food stamps for cash and then paying their cell phone bill with that cash. I'm really looking forward to the budget reducing all forms of welfare across the board this September.

The food stamps for my family were never enough. There are challenges posted on YouTube with people trying to shop for healthy foods on a food stamp budget because it's a difficult task. My family often had to go to a food bank or a church. Many times, we would get moldy bread, expired food, and even food with maggots. Sometimes, we would have to eat bread and butter for dinner. I don't know how people live like kings on food stamps because we certainly didn't.

When my mother sold food stamps, it was because we needed cash. You can't buy toilet paper or pay your electric bill with food stamps. That's not to say that some people don't sell food stamps to buy drugs or luxury items, but some people do sell food stamps because they have to.

On another forum, the cell phone issue has come up a lot. In modern times, it makes much more sense to have a cell phone than to pay for a landline. You can go to a prepaid cell phone company and get unlimited service for $35 a month. A study showed that many poor people only have internet access because of their cell phones. It is very difficult to find a job without a phone or internet access, and people may not have easy access to a library. I didn't have a cell phone growing up, and we often caught the bus to go to the library. Because there was usually a line of people waiting to use the computers, the amount of time one could spend on a library computer was limited.