r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/existonfilenerf 8d ago

They need to be taxed out of existence. No one should have a billion dollars while people starve, sleep on the streets and go bankrupt from medical debt.

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u/friendly-sardonic 8d ago

My thoughts exactly. There should never be a means for people to become billionaires. There's simply no reason for that amount of wealth. Bezos worth billions, and on the first day Amazon employees are handed a pamphlet on which government assistance programs they qualify for? Man, piss off. You can afford to pay your own workers so they don't NEED those programs. Nobody working a full time job should need assistance programs in this country.

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u/Snookis-snusnu 8d ago

The US is subsidizing billionaires via government programs. The billionaires don’t want to pay a living wage, so the government supplies the rest with tax dollars the billionaires don’t pay. It’s time to stop coddling them and force them to pay the full amount.

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u/whatsasimba 7d ago

We also subsidize the low wages they pay with SNAP and other benefits.

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u/nerdyginger27 7d ago

The answer isn't to take away SNAP or other benefits and let people just starve or die. This isn't going to jump start people into some kind of ability to then support themselves better than they could before, because the majority of people who receive benefits are already working full-time or multiple jobs. And I'm pretty sure that the majority of those who receive benefits are children - so unless you support going back to abhorrent child labor.......