Widespread Foodstamp Fraud

Got stamps? Have some cash.

Apparently, millions of taxpayer dollars are misused, to put it lightly, by many food stamp recipients and grocery stores who engage in "trafficking," where stamps are traded for cash rather than food.

From the AP:

Known as trafficking, the practice has dropped sharply since the government switched from paper coupons to cards that work like debit cards. But trafficking still consumes $240 million a year, the Government Accountability Office said...

Typical offenders are small grocery and convenience stores, where the rate of trafficking is more than 7 cents per dollar, while in large stores the rate is 0.2 cents per dollar, the report said.

Of course the answer is more government, which is more tax money, which is... well-spent?