No Tats for You! Florida Puts a Stop to Welfare Cash Being Used for Ink

I was today years old when I learned you could use welfare cash to get a tattoo—unless you’re in Florida, that is.

Fox News reports:

Florida is becoming the first state to impose sweeping new limits on how welfare cash can be spent, blocking recipients from using cash-assistance benefits loaded onto EBT cards for purchases like tattoos, theme park tickets, video games, vaping products and other items not generally considered “basic needs” under a plan the Trump administration is urging other states to emulate.

And here I thought welfare cash was supposed to be used on “basic needs” this entire time. Silly me.

The article continues:

Florida’s cash-assistance program, known as Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA), is funded through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. It is separate from SNAP, the food-assistance program, though families may receive both types of benefits through separate balances on the same EBT card.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) determined Florida’s updated TANF plan to be complete Thursday in a letter sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis and obtained by Fox News Digital. The letter praised the Sunshine State governor for putting “common-sense restrictions” on what it calls inappropriate, luxury and non-essential purchases.

Yeah, I’d say vaping and riding rollercoasters while showing off a new tattoo is as non-essential as you can get.

The welfare state has gotten completely out of control, and anyone who is okay with this garbage is either insane or laundering money. As taxpayers, we’re constantly fed a sob story about how welfare is a necessity to help others. Meanwhile, those benefits are being taken advantage of in the worst possible way.

Good on Florida for putting a stop to this. Other states better follow suit.

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