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🔴 Watch! End All SNAP Benefits | Change My Mind

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Steven Crowder is on the University of Oklahoma’s campus during the government shutdown. A shutdown that went long enough to impact benefits for SNAP recipients. Steven took the opportunity to explain why SNAP benefits need to come to an end.


KEY DETAILS:

  • SNAP recipients Source: Cato, Pew, USDA, Numerator, SMN, Stat, FGA
    • Cost taxpayers $100-130B/yr
    • Purchase $9B/yr in sugary drinks (#1 ITEM)
    • Spend 2X MORE per grocery store trip vs Non-SNAP
  • Obesity numbers of NON SNAP VS SNAP Source: CATO
  • LOW INCOME WOMEN:
    • NON-SNAP: 40% Obese
    • SNAP: 52% Obese
  • 60% of SNAP recipient adults (18-59) are able-bodied. Source: EPIC
  • AT least 33% of SNAP recipients have been on programs for more than 2 years. Source: CHN
  • 700K removed from SNAP for fraud since Trump 2.0. Source: NPR
    • Not necessarily illegals, just overall fraud



CLAIMS AND REBUTTALS

CLAIM NO. 1

CLAIM: Banning SNAP/EBT would immediately plunge millions of low-income children into hunger and force people to steal

TRUTH: Are people who refuse to work and participate in society FORCED to steal? Because these are the people who would be affected by my proposed policies.

CLAIM NO. 2

CLAIM: SNAP/EBT stimulates the economy by injecting billions in grocery spending, supporting farmers, retailers, and jobs

SOCRATIC: if that were true, would it mean that we should take money from workers in the country and inject it into any industry the government deems more valuable or important? Should they do that with banks? How about taking workers money to give to health insurance companies?

TRUTH:

CLAIM NO. 3

CLAIM: SNAP/EBT reduces poverty rates preventing crime

TRUTH: SNAP promotes poverty rates

  • Income threshold for SNAP is only $34,656/yr CBPP
  • Encourages people to stay below this income to keep getting free food

CLAIM NO. 4

CLAIM: Veterans and Seniors need SNAP/EBT

TRUTH: There are already supplementary programs for these individuals and no veteran truly in need would be disqualified for receiving future benefits, like the Veteran Food Assistance Program. Source: DVNF

CLAIM NO. 5

CLAIM: SNAP/EBT eligibility already includes strict work requirements for able-bodied adults

TRUTH: requirements are not strict because federal law allows for numerous waivers and loopholes.

  • States can, and many do, receive waivers that exempt able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) from work requirements.
  • Trump tightening work requirements and reporting USDA
    • 18-54 years old, 80hrs/month

CLAIM NO. 6

CLAIM: Cancelling SNAP/EBT would overwhelm private charities and food banks

TRUTH: Who would really bear the responsibility if this were to happen?

  • These charities would SUPPLEMENT SNAP’s replacement and therefore if they were overwhelmed it would be due to the massive amounts of people that shouldn’t have been receiving SNAP in the first place.

CLAIM NO. 7

CLAIM: SNAP/EBT promotes healthier diets through incentives like bonus dollars for fruits and vegetables

TRUTH: Sugary drinks most popular item

  • Roughly a dozen states now restricting some junk food including: Source: Newsweek
    • Texas
    • Oklahoma
    • Utah
    • Idaho
    • Iowa

    CLAIM NO. 8

    CLAIM: No one should go hungry in a first-world country like America

    TRUTH: No one should be obese on food subsidies while taxpayers struggle.