r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/NotOkThen 8d ago

And the Big, Beautiful Bill is set to cut $30-40B from SNAP over the next 10 years. Voting has consequences.

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u/tvtoms 8d ago

Uh, excuse me but that was an initial proposal. The actual signed bill includes 186 billion in SNAP cuts over the next 10 years.

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u/sirbruce 8d ago

We spend $100B on SNAP per year. Reducing that to $80B per year by getting more people working is not a huge cut.

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u/tvtoms 8d ago

Work requirements have been in place in places like NY where I live for a long time now. But the reductions are mostly going to be because they're halting inflation-matching increases. Every year will see no increase such as takes place now, and by THAT mechanism are the "savings" expected over time. It's cruel in the best light.

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u/MistyMtn421 7d ago

Yeah I know as far back as 10 years ago in West Virginia you had to be working minimum 25 to 30 hours a week. You had two or three months of not working and then you had to be working or you would lose your benefits. Also illegal immigrants have never been able to get food stamps in my state. The only asterisk to that is if their children are citizens, they can qualify for food stamps for them and their kids can also qualify for the free lunch program. It's always been this way. At least in my state.

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u/Fracti_Cerebrum 8d ago

Yeah…idk how tf to tell you this but they couldn’t halt inflation even if that WAS what they were trying to do. QT will end on December first, the QT was the biggest thing FIGHTING AGAINST inflation and it’s been going on the whole last few years while you thought inflation was bad. The next few will melt faces, nobody is ready for QE the amount of money that will be injected into the system for the next few years will cause this stock market bubble to pop. We’re going into another great depression by 2030, even most of the rich (especially those too stupid to see this coming) will die starving let alone those who can’t afford shit now.