Dear American Tax Payer: I am grateful for the meals you provide. Thank you.

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47. That's a nice post. Need more public education as to what taxes do.

Now I don't know your condition, don't know your capabilities, and I am not marginalizing your need. I know how important these resources are. Know that.

But just out of curiosity, I assume you would be better served with a job where you can buy your own food, or at least a path that leads to something other than hoping like hell the EBT card gets filled on time. Do you agree? Maybe a government-sponsored training and a little info about cooperative businesses, entrepreneurship, organizing with interested people, gardening. I don't mean throw you in 9 weeks of training then nothing because there are no jobs, but something that might make you more self-sufficient, not reliant on what has become a political ping-pong ball of tragedy. Maybe funded outside the government because of their self-interest in keeping their corporate buddies fed. Just ask JP Morgan what they make from these.

The reason I ask is that we have moved to dispensing cash to people as opposed to invigorating opportunities for them to go after, something corporations WILDY favor, because they can tap streams of revenue for tax preparation, payday loans, bank fees, all sorts of fees that with all these total up to billions a year. They could not profit like that if people weren't sent EIC and other payments, and grocery stores and food manufacturers couldn't manipulate food for profit nearly as easily. Without opportunity to grow, this is a sustainable fountain of cash from the taxpayer for businesses big and small, with the lever of "how can you hurt those "poor people" to make sure it keeps coming. (Note: There's not a god damn thing poor about "those people" - I dislike that terminology).

After having watched this for several decades, I am quite sure that these newer philosophies are not there to help people, they are there to keep them in their place.

Just wondered what you thought, and what you think might be a solution, or is none needed?