The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that SNAP benefits will not be issued for next month.

A society is always about 3 days of hunger away from a violent revolution. Start your clocks.

  • gandalf_der_12te
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    1 month ago

    this is a disaster for the people affected (and also every society is 3 days without food before violent revolutions and all that) but also IMO these programs should ideally be paid for by the states anyways, not the federal government. i also think that taxes should go to the states instead of the federal government, and the states then forward whatever amount is appropriate to the federal government. that would make the states more resilient against these kinds of federal fraud.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      1·
      1 month ago

      On the one hand, maybe. On the other, many states (mostly red ones) are also cruel and incompetent.

      Also, the federal government has vastly more funding power than the state government.