Why stop there? Cancel their welfare if they make a transaction involving a casino, liquor store, lottery, strip club, restaurant or anything else that doesn't have to do with basic needs. And if diapers aren't allowed, then neither should TV dinners or organic salmon.
Spurred by a newspaper's report that California's welfare debit cards can be used to withdraw cash in more than half the casinos in the state, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday issued an immediate ban on state-provided cash assistance at ATMs in gambling establishments.
The Los Angeles Times disclosed that Electronic Benefit Transfer cards work in automated teller machines at 32 of 58 tribal casinos and 47 of 90 state-licensed poker rooms. The report also found the state Department of Social Services published a list of useable ATMs where the EBT cards that work like debit cards could be cashed.
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