There's extensive evidence that just giving poor people money is very effective public policy. The moral panic over what ppl buy with SNAP is about sadism and entitlement. the wealthy enjoy policing and tormenting those they see as their inferiors. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republican...

Republicans Want Poor People t...

Republicans Want Poor People to Suffer

GOP policy on poverty is driven by sadism

^{Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)}