What do you do today about parents who sell their food stamps for liquor or other drugs?
This is, of course, the huge problem with this plan. Not that this isn't the right thing to do; but because the media and public will seize on the few morons who do stupid things and therefore malign a program that would actually help most.
Just imagine the headlines: Addicts Caught Buying Crack With Your Money.
It doesn't matter which party pushes it. If the Democrats pass it, the Republicans will scream about this; if the Republicans do, then the Democrats will scream how this justifies government as a warden.
This is, of course, the huge problem with this plan. Not that this isn't the right thing to do; but because the media and public will seize on the few morons who do stupid things and therefore malign a program that would actually help most.
Just imagine the headlines: Addicts Caught Buying Crack With Your Money.
It doesn't matter which party pushes it. If the Democrats pass it, the Republicans will scream about this; if the Republicans do, then the Democrats will scream how this justifies government as a warden.