Next Scandal: Platinum EBT Cards

The next welfare scandal is going to be the huge balances on some of these EBT cards.

Wait until the Department of Terrorist Assistance (DTA) finally coughs up how much money is on these cards. And yes, Gov. Deval Patrick, this is another one of those “anecdotes.”

Last January a radio listener from Pittsfield sent me a receipt from a local convenience store. Some loafer had run up a tab of $3.28, so he whipped out an EBT card to pay for it. After paying his three bucks, he had $7,066.58 left on the card.

I kid you not. Over seven grand on an EBT card.

There aren’t too many ways to run up seven grand plus on your EBT card. Of course it’s easy if you never use the card while every month you’re getting a new direct deposit of taxpayer cash.

But the only ways not to spend down the balance are because 1) you don’t need an EBT card at all or 2) you have more than one EBT card.

It’s got to be one or the other, right?

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