I recently witnessed an interaction about this.

Cashier at a supermarket is complaining about the previous customer buying "Luxury items" with the social credit card.

Mind you, those luxury items where not booze or expensive skin care products... No, there were not-the-cheapest brand of orange juice and milk.

The cashier reasoning was that if he can't afford those things, poor people shouldn't either.

So as you can see, they'd rather be angry with a mom buying decent food for their kids rather than asking themselves why everyone is getting poorer.

And yes, said customer was high on the color grading.

and yes its to distract the epstein files, thats why trump has to come up with new ways everyday to fill the news with gaffes.

It's very important to some people because that single mom is colored and the world just doesn't make sense if we let something halfway decent happen to them.

Here’s the thing. Why should others struggle less than I did? That’s not fair. These programs are rife with abuse, I just cannot provide any data that supports the rampant fraud that I speak of. In fact, I’ve never seen fraud at all—I just believe what the angry white man says on television!

These are real things I’ve heard from those that work in the same factory as I do. They have no idea that they are the useful idiots.

There are plenty of people in this country that would rather die than watch someone get something they need to survive. It's actually the strongest lever of power over Republicans other than what is directly happening to them personally right now. This is why they'll inevitably always end up like Gollum, confused as the lava kills them, and also why they should be shamed instead of leveled with.

There's some broken nonsense in conservative world views.

Perhaps chief among them (no pun intended) is the idea that hierarchy is good and natural and inevitable. Flowing from that there's the idea that different rules apply to different people. And the famous "in groups to protect, out groups to bind" thing.

So things like welfare are abhorrent to them. That's messing with the hierarchy! Some people need to be down in the gutter. Without the underclass, then everything falls apart and all their auffering was for nothing, and their sense of self can't handle that.

I know this isn’t the issue, and I am fully in favor of expanding social safety nets including food stamps, not reducing them…

That said, I find no conceptual issue with limiting the kinds of items food stamps can be used for to actual food. No one needs soda or candy bars or whatever other processed, practically poisonous crap we eat. We’d all be better off if we didn’t. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to limit tax-dollar funded food assistance programs to actual food items.

If you disagree, tell me why.