I’m pretty sure this person has not in fact seen people selling milk they get from EBT. Unless you get industrial amounts of milk from EBT, how would you even go about selling whatever amount you get? I’m certainly not gonna buy a single carton of milk from a stranger in a parking lot. To get any buyers at all they would have to sell at well below market price, which is a real problem when you’re not dealing in valuable commodities like drugs, but trying to sell a very limited amount of milk. Combined with the amount of work you would have to put in to hawk single servings of milk to strangers without receipts or any quality control I just do not see this as a viable business idea even as supplementary income and I did not even have to leave the liberal mindset to arrive at that conclusion.
What this person might have seen is someone offering a glass of milk to friends and family who are also helping them out economically. That makes perfect sense and is a nice thing to do, but isn’t really a question of selling milk.
Or maybe EBT delivers industrial amounts of milk. If the tonnage of milk you receive is large enough it would only make sense to try to sell it.
I’m pretty sure this person has not in fact seen people selling milk they get from EBT. Unless you get industrial amounts of milk from EBT, how would you even go about selling whatever amount you get?
I once encountered a gentleman who offered to buy my groceries with his EBT card in exchange for a smaller amount of cash. I declined since it didn’t seem worth the hassle. It probably does happen but not in the “reselling groceries” way and not at scale.
Suppose you were to resell the bougie $6 organic milk at market value to save up for an iPhone. Since you’re the type of person who resells organic milk in a parking lot of the store you just bought it from, it’s safe to assume that only the best iPhone will do, the $1099 iPhone 14 Pro Max.
You’d have to sell 195 of these milk jugs (adding in a 7% tax) to be able to buy it. I agree with you that this person has not done this.
I remember seeing this and trying to work the math out. Like my man saw someone sell 300 gallons of milk to buy an iphone? Were they selling baby formula?
Hang on just setting up a dairy dispensary so I can buy a single phone
If you’re gonna make up shit about poor people at least do it with numbers that make sense.
There was a baby formula shortage for a while. Maybe a situation specific to a time and place where someone was able to stock up on formula with EBT and resell at inflated price?
I don’t doubt there’s individual abuse or even organized abuse of these systems. But nothing holds a candle to corporate welfare. Even made up figures are a no contest situation.
It’s also bizarre to imagine a person who is willing to delay gratification enough that they’re selling milk for a year or more. But not realize food stamps would give them back more cash if they just used it to subsidize their food budget instead of selling food they don’t need at a loss.
Like I get there are people who use grey markets around restricted subsidies for quick cash, losing value in the process, when they need cash for something else. But usually it’s for low cash value stuff, not something that would take months of saving and planning. Also the solution is to remove restrictions and trust that poor people can prioritize their spending.
