Sen. Rand Paul: We’re giving food stamps to millionaires

why dont we first work on the ultimate food stamps: Federal Farm Subsidies. Amazing how many of our elected official receive them.

So, this guy clearly does not understand the SNAP program. I get food stamps, but I hav no income and my bank account is empty. They ask about ALL assets and request your bank information, so if you have $2 million they will not give you food stamps. They denied my roommate because he had $5k in his bank, and only made $500 a month.

Rand Paul SUCKS, but he did make some valid points.

GOP pols don't want to tax INCOME the same way they tax WAGES. But they want to use Income v Wages loopholes to gut whole system of helping those in need?

Fix the loopholes, Rand, and quit picking on poor people.

My nephew used to complain about the government surplus cheese and milk that was delivered routinely to the community where his very comfortably well-off retired grandparents lived. He was disturbed about all the bejeweled ladies driving Cadillacs and Lincolns to the distribution site to grab as much free food as they could carry off. There were NO poor people within 50+ miles of the place, a fairly posh dessert retirement community. But those well heeled retirees didn't have 'income' (read: WAGES) so they qualified. Reagan was president then too.

Well, we know some corporations take advantage of tax loopholes, so I guess Rand Paul's next bill will be to end all business tax cuts. Right?

Citing a few anectdotal examples of abuse is a typical neo-con tactic. Why didn't Paultard junior quote Ronnie Raygun, and say "young bucks buying steaks with food stamps"? More glaring evidence that the rethuglicans are out to screw the poor.

If there are problems with the program, they should be addressed; however if the program effectively helps a mojority of people in need, we should keep it. Fix it!

My wife is from an organized crime family all linked up to other organized crime families. It was my opinion from things i heard and saw that they were often recieveing welfare that no one else could get. The crime people seemed to have an inside track. In washington county Colorado welfare seemed to be used as one form of payoff to people who supported the local couty governments methamphetamine production and distribution business. Which was run by my wife's family. Her grandma Judy was on welfare. One time I saw the county commissioner and Judy counting about 3 million dollars cash on her kitchen table. The commissioner was her husbands brother. I was told that much came in about every week to ten days. . My point is that corruption skims the cream off everything and also I expect Rand and his daddy are corrupt all to hell. People close to corruption can always seem to reach into thier hat and pull out a dead rabbit to wave about. Its not magic. Its things they know because its things they do.

Where does someone get 20 k a year in food stamps?

Willing to give tax breaks to those millionaries.

Idiot, just the same type of dead-fish-brain logic the Republic Syndicate is using to deal with "Voter Fraud."

If there is .000000000000000006 chance of fraud it must be killed.

Still haven't figured out what Aqua Buddha Boy can't be part of his National Organization.

If the program is turned over to the states, the resulting state programs will become political footballs. First, many of the states are struggling with massive deficits. Ways will be found to funnel portions of the block grants into the states' general funds to reduce the deificits rather than going to those who need access to basic nourishment. Second, conditions will be imposed by the states on who can receive the stamps so that groups disliked by the political majority in each state will have a tougher time qualifying for the assistance. Third, those who want the state programs to remain intact will have to compromise on other distasteful state legislation in order to buy the continued existence of the state food stamp programs. I have seen this story dozens of times. And let's not kid ourselves, Rand Paul wants to see an end to the food stamp program - this is just a strategy toward that end. He is a heartless bastard. But enough about his good qualities...

Cut the Corporate welfare first Rand, until then Shut up about cutting welfare that helps the people

If there are indeed loopholes allowing millionaires to collect food stamps, then by all means patch them up, but don't destroy the program for the many honest people who genuinely need it.

I wonder if this moron will attack the corporate welfare goldbricks?1?

"Well" don't give food stamps to your millionaire friends Rand Paul, incidentally where are you getting your information from? Another BS lie they're going to run off the Cliff. This is a new one the GOP might run this lie all the way to November.

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“We need to remember that millionaires, including Larry Ficke, who won $2 million, are still receiving food stamps because he says he has got no income. He has got $2 million but no income.”

Last year, Ficke won $2 million from the Michigan lottery, but was still allowed to collect food stamps because of a loophole.

Sen. Rand Paul: We’re giving food stamps to millionaires

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