New York City Mayor Eric Adams defends his cash for migrants program.
“We’re saving approximately $600,000/month. $7.2 million/year, by giving individuals a card that allows them to buy food or baby supplies … This is a real win-win for us, & the money will go into the local economy”
The city is launching a new pilot program that will hand out pre-paid debit cards to 500 migrant families with children, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday. The program allots about $12.52 per card each day, giving each recipient roughly $350 a month to spend on food and baby supplies—a figure more than the maximum allotment that low-income New Yorkers receive in SNAP benefits.
Like SNAP, the new cards being distributed to migrant families also have restrictions. Use is limited exclusively to local bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores to ensure that city funds are going to food and baby supplies. The mayor's office has stressed that the cards will act similarly to SNAP benefits and Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards and that the program is a "cost saving measure" that will save the city $600,000 a month.
@CapitalistVioletMountain2mos2MO
Wouldn’t it be cheaper if they were there at all?
Sounds like a form of Bidenomics.
@CapitalistVioletMountain2mos2MO
"We're handing out the debit cards because we're communists and want to create dependency amongst the population--for total control."
@GreenPartyLizardLibertarian2mos2MO
Turning every illegal immigrant into a walking moneybag sounds like a genius idea.
These gangs are going to target other illegals & rob them of those cards.
Violence and murder is going to skyrocket.
That violence isn't going to be contained to just illegal immigrant communities.
This is going to be a disaster.
@CapitalistVioletMountain2mos2MO
Would this work at a larger scale? Let's give free cash cards to every American, and then the economy will really take off!
@CapitolCatRepublican2mos2MO
They take your money. They give it to illegal immigrants. And they boast about helping the local economy when the immigrants spend your money in your shops.
@Bip4rtisanJimmyPatriot2mos2MO
So you take taxpayer money then give it to other people for them to give a fraction back to the taxpayer.?
(An most of it goes to the cartels). Great work. Just tax people less if you have so much money. It will be spent by them and stay in the community.2124.
@DotterelBobbyPatriot2mos2MO
"Food or baby supplies"
No way someone spends their whole card on Enfamil, re-sells it, gets confronted on the street by a cop and gets choked out for not complying.
No way that happens.
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