Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The best disinfectant is the bright light of sunshine. Shine a light on cockroaches and they scatter. As Jeff Foxworthy would say, "Here's your sign," asshole.
A first-term lawmaker has dropped his proposal to make food stamp debit cards bright orange. Lawmaker drops proposal to make food stamp cards bright orange:
Rep. Jeff Dial, R-Chandler, told members of the House Commerce Committee on Wednesday he would not push his original version of HB 2675. Aside from the mandate on the Department of Economic Security to have the cards "safety orange,'' he also dropped a requirement for bold lettering spelling out "Government Food Stamp Card.''
Dial said he remains concerned that legitimate recipients of aid under what is formally known as the federal Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program were selling their cards for 50 cents cash for each dollar of value. He said that amounts to fraud.
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What's left of the now-amended bill criminalizes the use of food stamps that were purchased illegally. Violators would face a presumptive term of 18 months in prison.
The banksters of Wall Street stole trillions of dollars. Corporations have failed to pay billions in taxes owed. Not one of these fraudsters has been prosecuted or gone to jail.
Yet this fool is worried about petty ante crime that is largely insignificant if non-existent. Why? Because he wants to play off Ronald Reagan's myth of the "welfare queen" (a poor Black woman) ripping off white taxpayers. Poor people of color are ripping off hard working white Republicans. That is the coded message here.
He's still an asshole.
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