You're both right.

Isn't that what SNAP already is!? Ohhh snap!

Or we just stop the system where the corporations could buy laws to enable this, and their brutal enforcement.

The reason why laws are important, why you believe they're just, is because they're supposed to be the aggregate will of the people, and in practice, they're just not.

The only people ive ever talked to who thought the state should need to support someone who was working full time with food and housing and stuff is tankies, actual ML's who believed that that should be the core of the state. I guess in their ideal world there wouldn't be anything fucked up about that, but we don't live there.

It's not just the laws that are fucked here, its the entire system of law as thing that expresses and protects what people and communities want that has been almost precisely reversed in function, and whose enforcers make all of us live in fear. That's what needs to be fixed. The underlying systems that are not doing what it says on the package, because that's not what they were ever for. To continue trying to tweak the gun to your head until it cleans dirt off your floor is insane and unreasonable.

What did the Walton's for example actually do to control this much of the economy, to direct so much of it to their own whims and personal enrichment with no regard for or even explicit exclusion of the rest of us? Who thinks it was anything that deserved that kind of wealth?

Edit: yeah, 'just'. Repeating wasted labor to fix a system that's working perfectly an only wants to manipulate you is a lot more work with greater human cost than ripping the band-aid off and remaking society.

Turns out, a large portion of people using SNAP are employees of these "corps" (source), quote:

... The story repeats in all nine states. Walmart and McDonald’s were the corporations with the most employees using SNAP.

We are basically subsidizing their employees' wages with our tax money. And at the same time, all those money goes to these companies' bottom line. (where do you think their employees spend their SNAP money?)

This is a fucking scam, and must be stopped. These corporations must pay their employees a living wage, otherwise they must not be allowed to operate.

As it turns out, most small businesses pay a higher wage than the big corps. Average wages end up going down when a town gets Walmarted because Walmart pays less than the small businesses it drives out.

Ofc there are no citations for this "argument"? Capitalist ideologues are indoctrinated so deep into the hegemonic soup that they believe their pseudo-science is self-evident.

• Minimum Wage Study Debunks Business Claim - Increases in the minimum wage have little impact on small businesses, new research claims.
• Seven Myths About Raising the Minimum Wage—Debunked (See Myth #4)
• Does Raising The Minimum Wage Result In Job Losses In Small Firms? (No)
• A majority of America's small business owners support minimum wage increase, even as they worry about worker affordability