USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps

I hope it happens on live TV during one of his ramblings, or that he devolves even farther as another stroke hits him before collapsing and hopefully breaking something on the way down.

I don't like what monsters like him have made me wish for, but that won't stop me from celebrating when they are gone. I'm tired of "turn the other cheek" and "meet in the middle" complacency and I have been for a while.

This. If the right think celebrations after Charlie Kirk was murdered was bad, I have an entire celebration lined up for Trump's death

I'm willing to bet this is hurting his own voters more than anyone else.

p is trying to hold the poorest people hostage to get Democrats to cave.

Funny enough, the democrats who are rich enough to be in power don't care more than it looks like the're caring.

I think it's a prelude to Martial Law

Republicans can pass their stupid budget without democrats. All they have to do is give up the rule that allows minority power in the senate. They could even try making schumer actually do a fillibuster where he has to stand up and talk for days on end.

They are trying to cause riots

This is my exact read on the matter. We can't be the only ones to see it this way. What surprises me is that more analysts and pundits aren't talking about the economic violence from this angle. And when the masses finally reach their threshold, the Conservatives will do their "Whaaaat? So much for the tolerant Left."

"it's very important that every one quietly starves to death while being beaten by police, or else the government will starve the rest of us and beat them up as well!"

best thing to do is keep being peaceful

This is a typical abusee mindset.

"I know they're abusive but if I don't do anything to anger them they'll leave me alone"

They won't. The problem is them, not you.

Yes being peaceful well fight the "evil" why didn't we think of that during the world wars.

I doubt there is a law against an individual buying a bunch of supermarket coupons and handing them out to SNAP recipients outside the store, but I wouldn't put it past this administration to find some way to sue that person if someone does that.

Afaik, the legal mechanism behind this threat is a pre-existing law that prohibits charging different prices for people paying with SNAP vs other forms of payment. It's intended to prevent charging them extra, but it's written in such a way that you can't give discounts either.

It's bullshit and shouldn't exist, but it's not entirely new.

Did you read the article?

At issue is SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which bars stores from either discriminating against people in the program or offering them favorable treatment.

I dug a little further. The SNAP “Equal Treatment Rule” is not a standalone statute passed by Congress, it’s an agency regulation issued by USDA under its authority to administer the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It is codified in federal regulations (7 C.F.R. Part 274). SNAP itself is authorized by the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. §§ 2011–2036). That law gives USDA broad authority to regulate how benefits are issued and used.

At issue is SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which bars stores from either discriminating against people in the program or offering them favorable treatment.

It’s in the article. I’ll leave the googling of the equal Treatment Rule up to you.

Free market? It's MINE, MINE, MINE!