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The inference here of course is that SNAP is somehow at odds with the principle of free markets. In fact, significant numbers of the working poor are eligible to receive SNAP assistance due precisely to the “normal functioning” of the “free labor market” where often full-time employment does not pay enough to feed a family.
-University of Tulsa economics professor Scott Carter, discussing recent derogatory comments concerning food stamps recipients posted on the Oklahoma Republican Party’s Facebook page (Source)
