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Well the money is generally earmarked. Your Section 8 voucher goes towards housing, food stamps go towards food, etc. That creates a limit on how the money ca
by xienze 10y ago
Well the money is generally earmarked. Your Section 8 voucher goes towards housing, food stamps go towards food, etc. That creates a limit on how the money can be spent.
- mikeash 10y agoSocial Security isn't earmarked. Food stamps have pretty trivial workarounds for converting them into cash.
- vasilipupkin 10y agothe problem would be exacerbated. Food stamps do have workarounds, but the fact that it's not cash makes the problem much less severe
- mikeash 10y agoThat's fair. I guess part of the question is whether it's unacceptable to have any way people can fall through the cracks, or whether it's about relative improvement. The original comment felt more like the former, but that's just what I got from it.
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