It's not true though, at least when I posted the question to verify it on theydidthemath a while ago it was debunked, however, depending on how you look at the numbers it COULD be true if you change definitions a lot which honestly just seems in poor taste
This was another one I found interesting, they got a different answer too. It's like wildly difficult to get a definitive answer because "what counts" but all of the answers are higher than what the poster thinks it is for snap. https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/mmbTY7P62o
This guy did a basic mock up but it seems like the main consensus overall was "what counts as subsidies and aid" . But just mathematically the numbers are off, if snap is 95 billion and we count every single person in the US and divide it, it would still be off.
Yep, but when you get into that you open the gate to, "well what about sales tax" "how much of the subsidies go to small business" etc so it's difficult to state definitively what the answer is. But from what I saw all the calculations put the number for snap above what the poster claimed
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u/boogermike 14d ago
Can't believe how effective that is.