The lady who drove a Mercedes to pick up food vouchers.

[Heywood]

.....Also sometimes these programs are just used to replace income anyway. Say you get 200$ a month on food stamps. That's 200 dollars less of your regular money that you have to spend on food (obviously you will spend money on food before anything anyway.) That just means 200 dollars more one way or another.

What if you are a super shopper/couponer and only need $100 a month for food? Food stamps require you to buy $200 worth of food. So you lose a $100 dollars you could have used to buy something else to improve your lot even further(like diapers for instance). Just give the poor person $200 cash instead of food stamps and this waste goes away.