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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Let's make a deal. We cancel SNAP and implement a Negative Income Tax as conservative economist Milton Friedman recommended. That brings everyone up to the poverty line, and everyone on SNAP today won't need it anymore.

Benefits for you:

close a bunch of SNAP jobs
retail stores don't need to remember what's snap approved and what's not

Benefits for everyone else:

no more poverty
no application process for benefits, just file a fax return
cash instead of food-specific benefits, so people with food can use the cash for something else they need (clothes, utilities, etc)

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, poverty's expensive for everybody.

Much as I'm loathed to ever agree with an economist (conservative or otherwise), the general thrust there's sound.

Let the currency (and energy) flow. For the good of all, the prosperity of all. Even the rich are better off.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

The rich are better off is a weird saying. Who is better off a billionaire with $1 billion or a billionaire with 10 billion? They are the same, nobody can spend a billion in their lifetime. These people build $500 million mega yatchs because they have nothing better to do with their money.