The food stamp program — now known as SNAP — clocks in at $80 billion a year, funded by those of us who actually pay federal income tax. Despite this fact, the federal Agriculture Department will not reveal where/how the money is spent.
As a result, fraud is hard to track and the efficacy of the massive program is impossible to evaluate.
As the House debates the once-every-five-years farm bill, the majority of which goes to food stamps, there is a renewed and fervent call from a broad spectrum of camps that the information – some of the most high-dollar, frequently requested and closely held secrets of the government – be set free.
