Republicans claim widespread food stamp fraud. What's missing? Evidence.
2026-05-06 17:40 UTC
Replies (40)
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@architect@thelemmy.club 2026-05-08 13:05
Someone tell these people to shut the fuck up already.
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@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-07 21:25
Businesses not paying workers fair wages like Walmart forcing 1.6 million by themselves to take public assistance like food support is going to effect a ton of people and be a huge draw on the system compared to any other fraud on the system. 26.8% of 41.7 million is 11 million people. How much do you want to bet they can't find 11 hundred people committing fraud against the system like employers are. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/14/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-us/ Tax payers subsidizing corporations to further exploit tax payers
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@brownsugga@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 19:45
Go after the real welfare queens. The Walton family, Elon Musk, the oil and gas industry. Big corporate farming. Ending subsidies for oil and gas alone would pay for Medicare for all
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@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 17:44
I'd rather a hundred people get benefits they "don't need" than have one person go without the support they require. *Not that it's even happening*, but even if it *were* I really wouldn't care even a little bit. And furthermore, food stamp benefits are *pathetic* in the US.
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@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 10:11
I know someone on SNAP benefits. She drives a 25 year old Buick Lesabre with over 200,000 miles on it . Technically it’s a “luxury car,” which she got for $800. Their stats are bullshit, spun in such a way as to churn up resentment towards the poorest , so the wealthiest can bilk more money from the middle.
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@Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-07 20:41
When I lived in a poor area I saw a ton of luxury vehicles but they were a decade older than most non-luxury cars and were beat to shit. I'd believe the numbers but I don't think they say what this idiot is implying. Its demoralizing that this type of messaging resonates with such a large portion of Americans, honestly.
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@Folstar@lemmus.org 2026-05-07 16:04
The Gang of Pedos has never let something as trivial as evidence guide their world view. Also not big fans of consent.
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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-07 13:34
The Tax Evasion and Avoidance of billionaires is many times the entire budget of this kind of thing. You could literally make up for 100% fraud in things like food stamp by making somebody like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos pay the same effective tax rate as everybody else. Even if these claims from the far-right of widespread fraud and abuses in social security were true, they would still be like distracting people from a raging forest fire by waving a sparkler.
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@JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 18:01
This is literally just the '80s "welfare queen" lie.
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@bagsy@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 19:42
Look over there at the guy stealing bread for his family, no mind the BILLIONS of dollars being stolen by this admin every week. God i hate the GOP.
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@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2026-05-07 14:31
There's also no knowing what folks had when the floor fell out from under them. That Escalade might have been half paid off when they lost their source of income. Conservatives've been on this same bullshit for decades.
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@idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 18:06
> luxury vehicles What do you want to bet they’re talking about poorly maintained 15+ year old lexuses and 30+ year old bmws? Just kidding, it’s most likely entirely unfounded.
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@StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 16:05
A remix of the old welfare queen lie. smh. Some guy probably used his mom's food stamps card to get fast food once and they're going to make it seem like a billion dollars in theft.
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@Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2026-05-06 21:16
Dude, it seems everything the GOP claims lacks evidence.
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@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2026-05-07 04:46
I feel like "luxury vehicles" is the same buzzword as "assault weapons." A meaningless buzzword to evoke emotion. What's a "luxury vehicle?" What's the cutoff? Are they in a nicer Honda or a Lotus? Seeing as how this country's citizens are famously one illness or ouchie away from financial ruin, did they purchase this vehicle before or after needing assistance? Are they still making payments or is it paid off? Facts and hard criteria or GTFO with this nonsense. It's literally just trying to goad the struggling to pull the rug from the destitute, while the rich pop their champaign and laugh. It's class warfare rhetoric to take the heat off the Epstein class, and anybody falling for it is a damned fool.
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@Zamotic@lemmy.zip 2026-05-07 00:15
Watch they are going to fight to increase restrictions on SNAP benefit "handouts", but a ton of rich people fraudulently took out COVID loans, actually bought cars, never paid them back, and there is legit evidence but they were never prosecuted. The new slogan for America should be: Protect the fellow rich, beat the poor down into dust.
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@queermunist@lemmy.ml 2026-05-06 18:15
The "fraud" they're talking about is Black people being allowed to access food.
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@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-05-06 22:41
It also doesn’t define “LUXURY VEHICLE” The banged up crossover SUV that came with CarPlay and OnStar so your insurance and the government can track your every move could be considered a LUXURY because _CONNECTIVITY_ Guys, poor people are forced to buy the only things we’ll sell to them. How come they never try not being poor? Lazy!
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@captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 19:21
"Look at them! They're driving luxury vehicles like a fancy foreign Honda civic and the urban elite bicycle"
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@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2026-05-07 19:14
>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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@BigDiction@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 01:59
Even if you had 14,000 SNAP recipients driving “luxury vehicles” in every state that is still less than 2% of all beneficiaries nation wide. Food assistance keeps people productive. Even a capitalist should advocate for it.
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@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-05-06 18:13
>“In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES!” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins posted on X last week It should be noted that in some states (most? No idea), the value of your car and house don’t count against your application for food stamps. Which makes perfect sense when you consider that you would have to be a fucking moron to sell your home or car to eat, since after you eat you either have nowhere to sleep or no way to get to work independently. A “high value” (read: not a shitcan) car can also be more dependable than a junker, may vary by brand of course. Anyway, anyone who has ever wanted to police food stamps is going to hell.
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@partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 05:42
> Republicans claim widespread food stamp fraud. What's missing? ~~Evidence~~ **Food stamp fraud**. I fixed the headline.
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@Malyca@lemmy.zip 2026-05-06 20:19
I got a call from the food bank thanking me for donating. She said the demand is shocking now. They don't have enough. She was all "don't worry we're just calling to thank you, not to ask for more, just keeping you updated." I shudder to think how much worse it will get by the time these gouls are through. I'll keep donating while I can, I suggest everyone else do the same. Donating money goes the farthest because the banks have deals with supermarkets and stuff.
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@leoj@piefed.social 2026-05-06 20:31
I would rather 5 people abuse it than 1 person go hungry, but maybe I'm just civilized? Either way we should attempt to curtail abuse, but with credit+debit+tax returns we could effectively combat egregious cases of abuse.
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@dasrael@lemmy.zip 2026-05-07 19:36
evidence has never been a concern when it comes to the right.
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@SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 01:14
An old friend from college is now trying to live on $1800 a month from Social Security--in Southern California. She just found out, she will get $24 a month in SNAP, and she had to wade through bureaucracy even for that. Keep the poors poor, working shit jobs or kill them off if they can't work. That's a Christian Nation, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 02:05
It's a fucking excuse to make fuck-you-got-mine policies.
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@tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 10:11
fuck republicans
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@AlexLost@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 22:52
Republicans claim a lot of things without proof, and the illiterate masses eat it up.
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@lobut@lemmy.ca 2026-05-07 01:18
Musk is not a problem for them or the other 88 companies dodging taxes last year right.
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@bitchkat@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 13:37
The luxury cars are probably 15 year old Cadillacs or something.
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-05-06 18:43
this is exactly the welfare queen thing from the 80's. The myth is a black woman from the inner city, the reality was a white farmer bilking the system.
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@alekwithak@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 18:21
The real welfare queens are projecting again.
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@Lemminary@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 06:15
The cruelty is the point. Also, where are the Trumpstein files?
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@buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 11:03
Why should it ever stop them? There has never been any evidence in anything they have ever accused. They make the accusations then they rely on their propaganda machine, AKA literally all of media at this point, to put out their version of things to the entire nation before the truth has a chance to even circulate locally.
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@rockandsock@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 18:09
Someone driving a hand me down 90s Lincoln worth $2500 isn't exactly what I'd call luxurious.
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@inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 20:28
And if there is widespread food stamp fraud I am willing to bet 1k that it comes from Republicans.
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@electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2026-05-07 01:00
Love to hear this kind of bullshit while we drain trillions into the pockets of war-pigs.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-05-07 07:15
if people are taking advice from LIZARD RAFAEL CANCUN CRUZ as a fact, its on them.