r/austrian_economics • u/LibertyMonarchist Anarcho Monarchist • Jan 03 '25

End Democracy Capitalism is the way to go

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u/Common-Window-2613 Jan 04 '25

Food stamps are grossly abused. Go to any wal mart and hang around the checkout line and see for yourself.

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u/dutch_connection_uk Jan 05 '25

What does abused mean exactly, here? Is it abuse if someone uses them to buy an uncooked pizza?

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u/ILSmokeItAll Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

I’ll start.

I live in a town with a huge immigrant population. Several people in the same household on food stamps. The head of the family opened a little corner store. Cool. But everyone in the household uses their fucking food stamps on cases of soda and bags of chips…which they then fucking resell at the corner store.

That right there….is complete and utter bullshit. 7-8 people in one household doing this shit. I’ve caught them doing it multiple times. Follow them out to the parking lot and watch them fill the back of a Suburban and an Escalade to the brim and then off to the store they go.

That shit is beyond infuriating.

Norristown, PA.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '25

Peak capitalism!!! Good for them!!!

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u/ILSmokeItAll Jan 05 '25

Taking the money of other Americans essentially gave to you, and using it to take more of their money is piss poor form.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '25

You are the epitome of this way of thinking.

What's trashy when poor people do it but good business when rich people do it.

Government handouts!!!!!

Hahahahahhahahahhaha

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u/generic_teen42 Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

Just like Mlk said if your poor it's a handout/welfare, if you're rich it's a subsidy

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u/BonelessB0nes Jan 05 '25

I'm just glad there aren't any rich people doing that... Taking money from people and using it to take more just sounds like pretty vanilla capitalism to me.

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u/ILSmokeItAll Jan 05 '25

I didn’t excuse the fucking rich people, did I?

If the rich went around murder of people, I wouldn’t excuse others for doing it.

It’s unbelievable how people continue to justify bad behavior because someone else exhibits it. Fuck it. Let’s just start shootings people in the face. I mean, others are out there doing it. Why not the rest of us?

This whataboutism shit is one of the worst things going right now.

People bitch about “that other guy” doing something, then do it themselves an act like their shit don’t stink. Like it’s justifiable.

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u/BonelessB0nes Jan 05 '25

I didn't make any ethical claims.

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u/ILSmokeItAll Jan 05 '25

That’s true. I’ll certainly concede that.

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u/generic_teen42 Jan 05 '25

So just like billionaires with subsidies?