Those cringe motherfuckers couldn't be bothered with a check I could read and cash, oh no. They're sending out debit cards. Looks like we're all on welfare now folks. Waitin' for de gubment to charge up my spending card so I can go to Walmart.
And their favorite folks the bankers, get a transaction cut on everything.
It's $3 for every EBT card, per person. I can only imagine the money the whores in congress are giving them over this.
Welfare is big business.
In Germany we have the equivalent of the military industrial complex for migrants, colloquially called the asylum industry. It's a whole industry of leeches and middlemen, from lawyers, to housing companies, to NGOs, to "charitable" organizations, to corrupt politicians who have their fingers in all of them.
Here in Seattle we call it the homeless industrial complex.
In 2017, there were 143 million taxpayers in the US.
If just 10% of them got their bribe money on a card, banks made about $43 million
If 25% got it on a card, $107 million
If 50%, $215 million
And that's just on this one round of stimulus.
Is there any plausible, non-cynical take on this? Maybe the debit cards are more traceable for the next round of billions of dollars in fraud? Is this mental exercise even worth considering?
I'm worn out with the fraud at this point.
I will make some guesses:
The plastic card is of course trackable when used; lots of juicy data there.
It's refillable for the next [serf] welfare payment
It could become a kind of financial ID, kind of like a social security number.
And of course the bankers always get their transaction fees.
Tsk, tsk. All that cynicism... We'll be deducting that from your next stimulus; you can only blame yourself.
You niggas don't have direct deposit?
Most of the time when you pay your taxes/theft to the gov people have DD setup so the $$ gets deposited in there and because cards are “safer” people who don’t get DD are issued a card
Either way the gov more or less knows where the door is
Weirdly enough, i pay taxes through DD but got a check in the mail.