This seems reasonable.

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(04-13-2018, 09:10 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I disagree.  Taking care of the poor helps everyone.  There are not enough jobs for everyone to earn a living wage.  Things would get ugly for EVERYONE if the poor were left to starve.

Sure, of course, I'm from European socialist utopia and still vote left, so no argument here, and I'm also against drug tests. Still food stamps are not quite comparable to students or farm subsidies. In that food stamps are an individual aid not meant to support habits that potentially led to this situation or perpetuate it. Meaning a recipient financing his drug taking habits with food stamps, which sure does happen. I feel that's a reasonable point to make.

If a farmer takes his drugs on a Friday evening - less important, as long as the job he's subsidized for gets done, or say the student that still passes his exams. There's just no comparable job to get done for food stamp recipients. So different premise.