Nearly 5,000 stores with words related to 'liquor' or 'tobacco' in their names accept food stamps

Nearly 5,000 stores with words related to “liquor” or “tobacco” in their names accept food stamps, a Daily Wire review of government data found.

Food stamps aren’t allowed to be used for alcohol, but they are allowed to accept them on the idea that someone might want to buy snacks at the liquor store.

Such stores are highly unlikely to sell much healthy food, and the snacks they sell are likely ultra-processed junk food sold in small quantities at a very high markup.

Inspectors found that a Tennessee tobacco store didn't even have a selection of staple foods for sale.

Investigators found it was ringing up high-dollar transactions even though it only sold small items like snacks and didn’t even have shopping baskets.

Colorado Gov. Sanders wrote to Robert F. Kennedy , President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, and Brooke Rollins , his Agriculture nominee, that reforming SNAP could be part of the Make America Healthy Again agenda.