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“There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4200 per year on average,” he wrote. “Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4200 dollars in properly shopped groceries. Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.”I know, right? I mean, that's basically
82 whole dollars to buy groceries for a week for your entire family. Or $350 per month - which covers
only 35% of the cost of what the USDA says is the amount required to feed a baseline family each month under their most "thrifty" plan - which costs $1K per month.
So I think that Rep. Higgins probably hasn't had to do his own household grocery shopping for a while - because he doesn't seem to have properly gotten his "head wrapped around" how
few pantries you can stock with $82 per week for a baseline family of four under SNAP.
https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/...https://www.fns.usda.gov/research/cnpp/usda-food-p...P.S. I don't think that crack is as inexpensive as he seems to think it is, either. But the USDA doesn't provide that info on the website.
