I laid it all out here a year and a half ago. https://elitetrader.com/et/threads/things-you-can-buy-with-an-ebt-card.301648/
An elegant solution that should be implemented immediately, actually should have been that way from the beginning.
Showing up to a job is a skill, working as part of a team is a skill, looking presentable is a skill, counting items is a skill, being responsible is a skill, giving back is a skill...part of the list of skills lacking in many recipients. btw. tell the warehouse workers who actually box items to earn a wage to feed their OWN family that it is not a skill. Don't be a jackass.
, Everything is a skill, more or less, to a certain degree or extent. It's not necessarily right to belittle people, or look down on them, because of pay grade scale.
Think soft skills. I guess you never learnt that skill or you have it but don't understand the importance. I can go over the process but you already have your mind set.
No, I didn't. I actually agreed with the first portion of your post. And then you went and made a snarky comment about how Republicans are the party that thinks soda taxes are bad - and you did so as part of an (incorrect) assumption that this is because Republicans believe soda is good for you (as evidenced by your follow up comment regarding pizza sauce being a vegetable). But that's not why they are against soda taxes at all.
The problem with ALL sin taxes is that the taxing body counts on the money yet if the tax is effective in limiting the sin, they are short money and we knooow how they love that.