We read an article in the June 28 Sun Journal about a New Hampshire woman who lost her job because she refused a customer’s use of an electronic benefits transfer card to buy cigarettes. She quit after the manager of the Maine-based store in New Hampshire reprimanded her, which we don’t feel was right.
We don’t have a problem with helping people to buy food, but we do have a problem helping people buy cigarettes and to gamble.
This country is having trouble meeting its obligations with budgets so tight. Why should the EBT system be furnishing people with money to gamble and buy cigarettes? Those items are not necessary for survival.
Something is wrong with the regulation of the EBT card system when it allows that type of transaction.
That is an outrage for the taxpayers.
Kieth and Carolyn Bennett, Mechanic Falls
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