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‘Paperwork’ Is Driving People Away From Food Stamps. Good

The problem isn’t just welfare fraud. It’s all the hundreds of billions of dollars in welfare itself, starting with food stamps.

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Just as this administration cannot afford to let up on mass deportations, it can’t do enough to choke every bit of oxygen out of this country’s obscene welfare problem — starting with food stamps.

For proof, look no further than a New York Times article from late July, which was the basis of an episode for the paper’s The Daily podcast this week. The article was headlined — if you can even believe it — “Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps.” Imagine supposedly relying on food stamps to feed yourself or your family but choosing to starve because of “piles of new paperwork.”

Well, of course, nobody is starving. At worst, they’re drinking water instead of bottles of soda. (“Sweetened beverages” are the second-most purchased category of items using food stamps, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.) The entire program is a racket, and the degree of entitlement oozes through the Times like an infected pimple way past its due date.

“It can take months to reach besieged caseworkers, and offices have gone as far as asking people with panhandling income for verification from strangers dropping cash in their jar,” the Times reported, using the steep drop in Arizona’s “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” (SNAP)........

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