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Any bets on how long it will be before every retail store uses the Costco membership model of business. Require customers to pay a fee upfront for the privilege of shopping there and requiring identification before they can enter. Only way I see to cut down on retail crime.

WallStreetApes

More Americans exposing the truth about the SNAP EBT Program
"The real reason why a lot of people are upset about this whole food
stamps snap benefit thing, bro, is because they're selling their food stamps.
They're selling them. I'm telling you, they are selling their food stamps. You
know how many people in New York and other states right now are going to
the corner store, the deli, and they're selling their food stamps"
"That's why they're getting like $4,000 - $3,000 in food stamps, and
they're selling it for cash. They'll get $4,000 in food stamps and they'll just
take like $1,000 in cash. Like bro, like that's happening like everywhere.
That's why they're mad."
"They will never admit to selling their food stamps. But it's happening."

I don’t see how this is possible. Each person only gets $190 per month in EBT.

Glock-n-Load says

I don’t see how this is possible. Each person only gets $190 per month in EBT.

Source?

AI overview:
The amount of EBT (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - SNAP) benefits varies by household size, income, and expenses, with the average household receiving around $332 per month as of fiscal year 2023. For a family of three with no income, the maximum benefit could be $785 per month (fiscal year 2026 estimate), while a one-person household might receive a minimum of $23 per month, with the maximum for a single person being up to $298 (as of October 2025, in some areas).

8-person household: $1,789

But remember there can be multiple "families" living an a household whose combined EBT exceeds that.

That’s a long way from $3,000-$4,000.

Testing the Danegeld

Is it really keeping them pacified?

For the first time since the program’s modern form in 1964, we are about to discover whether the underclass can be pacified indefinitely with prepaid debit cards or whether the entire enterprise has been a sophisticated form of Danegeld, tribute paid to prevent the barbarians from storming the gates.

The analogy is thrown around on social media. The original Danegeld was silver extorted by Viking raiders from Anglo-Saxon kings too timid or too weakened to fight. Pay the danes, went the logic, and they will sail away. They never did. The tribute merely whetted appetite and advertised vulnerability. ...

The program’s defenders insist the comparison is grotesque. Hunger is not piracy. Malnutrition is not marauding. Yet the pacification theory does not require literal violence, only the credible threat of disorder. It’s the mob threat of nice rich playground you got here shame if we burned it down. When Mayor Eric Adams of New York warns that cutting SNAP will produce “looting in the streets,” he is not predicting famine but signaling the unspoken compact. Keep the EBT cards loaded, or the underclass (violent, resentful, and concentrated in vote-rich urban wards) will make life untenable and governance impossible. The threat is rarely articulated so baldly, but it hovers over every budget negotiation like the ghost of the ‘60s riots. ...

Why do they get to hold everyone else hostage? If ruralites are told to go to the city to get a job, why are these urban residents unemployed and needing our tax money? Can we stop the convoluted lies propping this all up?

The barbarians are not at the gates. These are shock troops. They will riot only if Democratic leadership thinks it is useful. The gates were opened from within, and the silver handed over willingly. The shutdown is merely the moment we notice the treasury is empty, and that the Vikings, far from starving, have grown fat on our fear.

Democratic leadership

So, a District Judge tells the Executive Branch that it must pay Food Stamps.

If Trump must pay Food Stamps out of contingency funds, then it certainly can pay for constitutionally essential things like the military.

It's simply not Constitutional as I stated. By this reasoning the Judicial Branch usurps control of the purse which belongs to Congress.

Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports
@honestpollster

If SNAP were cutoff in the US, Walmart US stores would have a negative
operating margin.

SNAP is literally what makes Walmart profitable.

Might want to short Walmart stock if we're going to stay shut down.

Oct 26, 2025

Are we going to discover that the bulk of the EBT and SNAP are not about food but about funding a vast black market of money laundering substitutions that support drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and ghetto glitter?

Ceffer says

Are we going to discover that the bulk of the EBT and SNAP are not about food but about funding a vast black market of money laundering substitutions that support drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and ghetto glitter?

Yes.

The government could buy wholesale food and let people in real need pick it up. That would save taxpayers billions. But it would cut into Walmart's profits.