Working at a grocery store, I've been first hand witness of food stamp manipulation. I've loaded enumerable amounts of pop into the backs of dusty old pick up trucks, all purchased with food stamps. Ridiculous numbers of pop- that no one family could consume. Ignoring this fact, the most obvious and striking form of abuse, there is also error on a stores part which is wasteful of tax dollars.
EBT cards cannot cover pet food, medicines, cigarettes, alcohol, paper products, or almost anything inedible. Imagine a hypothetical situation, though. A small convenience store clerk has the ability to grant anything a person wants with the press of a button, simply changing any item from "taxable grocery" to "grocery." Sometimes, cashiers ring up items incorrectly, for example, placing sandwich bags under the "grocery" department. This accidentally allows the purchase of taxable, non-food stamp covered items to end up being charged to the card.
In turn, many thousands of tax dollars are spent in error or abuse.
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