Your Paycheck Isn’t Funding SNAP—And That’s the Point

When someone says:

“Why should my paycheck go to pay for someone else’s groceries?”

The answer is: It doesn’t.

Your paycheck isn’t funding SNAP.
Your taxes aren’t funding SNAP.

SNAP is funding employer’s decision to keep wages low.

SNAP Is Not a Gift. It’s a Subsidy to Employers.

If corporations paid living wages,
SNAP wouldn’t be necessary.

But they don’t.
Because they don’t have to.

SNAP makes sure people can survive despite being underpaid.

Your anger is valid.
But it’s being pointed in the wrong direction.

Be mad at the people who set your wage,
not the people eating dinner with help.

“But My Money—”

No.
Look.

The U.S. could fully fund SNAP without taxing you at all by:

• closing corporate loopholes,
• taxing stock buybacks,
• taxing unrealized gains,
• or reversing the Trump-era corporate tax cuts.

SNAP is not expensive.
Corporate welfare is expensive.

The average SNAP benefit is about: $6.20/day.

Meanwhile:

• Jeff Bezos made more than that every 2 seconds while workers peed in bottles.

If you're angry, your instincts are correct.

They just trained you to look down instead of up.

Manufactured Resentment Is a Feature, Not a Bug

The system needs workers to resent each other.
Because if workers realized they are all being underpaid by the same handful of corporations,
they would unionize, strike, and win.

So the narrative becomes:

“Other poor people are stealing from you.”

Not:

“Your boss is pocketing the difference between what you produce and what you’re paid.”

SNAP Exists Because Wages Are Strategically Suppressed

SNAP is the patch over a wound created by:

• Walmart,
• McDonald’s,
• Amazon,
• UPS,
• Tyson,
• Uber,
• Dollar General,
• every major employer that lobbies against a living wage.

The government is not stealing your money to feed someone else.

The government is using tax revenue to make sure corporations never have to pay full wages.

That is the scam.

And it’s happening to you, not because of you.

So If You’re Angry, Be Angry Correctly

Be angry that:

• your rent is high,
• your wage is low,
• your workplace is understaffed,
• your employer posts record profits anyway.

Be angry that they get subsidies, tax breaks, and bailouts
while you get lectures about “personal responsibility.”

Don’t hate the person using SNAP to feed their kids.

Hate the system that made SNAP necessary in the first place.

Hate the companies that could pay enough to render SNAP irrelevant
and chose not to.

If we stopped fighting each other,
we would win.

And that’s what they’re afraid of.