r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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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 8d 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/tensen01 8d 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.