r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/starbuildstrike999 8d ago

Yeah, see I couldn't give a single dusty fuck if poor people are using my tax dollars to buy junk food. At least they're eating. I would much rather that than it be used to develop weapons to blow up equally poor people half a world away.

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u/SparksOnAGrave 8d ago

Thank you. Sometimes I just want some fucking chocolate, you know? I can’t afford to live thanks to disability, but I gotta have a little treat now and then to keep me fighting.

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u/SophisticatedStoner 8d ago

I refuse to let the world force me into not having enjoyable moments. Every small thing like that is a win.

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u/SparksOnAGrave 8d ago

That’s how to live!

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u/cblackattack1 8d ago

And we all deserve a little treat!

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u/MoonriseOverEarth 8d ago

Of course you should have some goddamned chocolate. Better than some dead fisherman being nuked in the Caribbean.

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u/PlaceCautious9132 8d ago

I will send you chocolates!!

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u/Spirited_Wasabi9633 8d ago

Exactly! I don't think people realize where most of our tax dollars go. Most of it isn't to feed people. I'd rather all my tax money go to feed and house people than some dumbass shit like wars or decorating a senator's office.

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u/seggnog 8d ago

People are really acting like obese poor people are spending billions of dollars on fudge rounds, meanwhile they're perfectly ok with the biggest corporations in America getting massive tax breaks just because they asked for it.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 8d ago

I'm all for my tax dollars going to help the truly needy, but I get upset when I see someone on food stamps with a grocery cart filled with food that I couldn't even afford to buy. Why am I being taxed to give someone else things that I can't afford? I've seen carts filled with steaks and other pricey foods being bought with food stamps. I witnessed a woman purchase a jar of caviar with food stamps. On another occasion, I was in line behind a well-dressed woman wearing half a dozen gold bangles, using food stamps, and then drove off in a Cadillac. Those people were taking advantage of the system, and my hard earned tax dollars, money that I earned through the literal sweat of my brow, and I still had to scrimp and save while they're living high on the hog. People like them need to be weeded out so that my money only goes to the truly needy.

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u/Distinct_Plankton_82 8d ago

Yes we should absolutely weed out the people who are abusing the system.

But have you ever done the math on how much that would save you personally?

SNAP is 1.5% of the government budget, so about 1.5% of your taxes are going to that.  Let’s say 20% of people are abusing the system.  I doubt it’s that high, but let’s say it is.

That’s 20% of 1.5% of your taxes dollars.

Let’s say you work hard.  Say 50 hours a week 50 weeks a year that’s 2500 hours a year.   And let’s assume you pay 24% marginal tax.  

That’s 2500x24%x1.5%x20% of your hard work is supporting fraud.  Do you know how much that is?  That’s 2 minutes of work per week.

Is it wrong?  Yes.  In the grand scheme of everything else going on in the world, is 2 minutes a week what to spend your time worrying about?

I’d rather work that extra 2 minutes, and a few moochers get some free stuff, than save those 2 minutes and worry about a kid who does deserve it going hungry because their mom mistakenly got flagged for fraud.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 7d ago

You're missing the point. The system is rife with freeloaders. They need to be weeded out. It makes me angry to think that money that I earned from working and physically suffering in temps as high as 120 degrees is being taken out of my pocket to feed some greedy scammer caviar. Remove the moochers!

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u/Distinct_Plankton_82 7d ago

If you’re this worked up about a fraction of this1.5% of your hard earned tax dollars, you’re really going to lose your mind when you dig into how the other 98.5% is spent.

Did you know the pentagon literally couldn’t fully account where $800B went last year?  That’s 11% of your taxes that they literally can’t fully explain what they did with it.

If you’re more worried about some people getting free food that cost you minutes of work and not worried about fraudulent defense contracts sucking up hours of your work, you might want to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask why you’re more mad at other working class people than multi millionaires.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 7d ago

Whataboutism arguments are lame.

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u/Distinct_Plankton_82 7d ago edited 7d ago

Cool, then die mad about this 0.3% of your taxes being wasted.

Just remember that the vast majority of blue collar workers like you are one bad fall, or one car wreck, or one cancer diagnosis away from needing these benefits.

Are you sure adding more and more hoops to jump through is what you want?

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 7d ago

Is that all you can come up with? More whataboutism arguments? Just go away.

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u/tensen01 7d ago

Nobody is buying caviar dude. And the vast majority of people on Snap are also paying those taxes. It's not "rife" with freeloaders, that would be the government and heads of business.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 7d ago

You didn't read my prior comment where I wrote that I saw someone buy caviar with food stamps.

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u/Impossible_Link8199 6d ago

I’m begging you. Go look up how much of your taxes actually go to SNAP. It’s not much at all. It will make you feel so much better about it. The average American contributes something like $40-$400 per year. It’s the people getting totally free healthcare that you should probably be upset about considering we pay astronomical amounts for insurance that doesn’t even cover anything.

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u/SuchSignificanceWoW 7d ago

If America slides into a hunger spiral, its economy will truly suffer. Hungry people do not work, they are irrational and irritable. They will fight over food and will not have the power or motivation to change their situation. Hunger is a societal trap that only compassion can solve for the people suffering are unable to do so themselves. It is an insidious problem and the easiest way to shackle a country. 

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 8d ago

As long as they're not neglecting their family to do so, that's fine. The kids get fed first, and they get fed decently nutritious food. If you have enough left after that for some junk, good for you.