Originally Posted by woj

One obvious observation is that if it's possible to game the system, then EBT recipients are getting too much?

Imagine that if you have your shit together, you can survive on $100/month, you need to eat, so you need $100/month no matter what... so you get a $100/month EBT card, buy food with it, there is zero $$ left over to game the system in any way...

if you try to sell it, then obviously you won't have enough to buy food anymore, making selling it pointless? you try to buy candy bars at whole foods, then you won't have enough left over to buy real food, so obviously going to whole foods for candy bars isn't going to work either?

so the whole problem is that everyone is really getting $150, $50 more than the $100 needed to buy food, and that extra $50 can be used to "game the system", either by selling it, or buying frivolous goods?