[A//// Guy]

I agree on limiting what people can buy with welfare and food stamps to an extent. One would also argue, it is imposing more govt regulation on what someone can and cant do with assistance.

Assistance is there for a reason, to be a crutch short term until you can get back on your feet, from either job loss, or something similar. The real long term problem is that people abuse it for years and continue to do so because of other loopholes.

Cigarettes, alchohol and lottery tix are taxed pretty heavily, so getting the poor hooked on those things, brings quite a bit of money back into the system. Its a crazy circle.