The $8 million Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., reportedly owes the IRS could pay for approximately 1,333,333 individual SNAP benefits (formerly known as food stamps) for West Virginians.

People in West Virginia who depend on SNAP receive about $6 a day per person from the federal government. West Virginia receives around $48 million a month from the U.S. government for SNAP payments. That’s roughly $1,548,387 a day. The $8 million ostensibly owed by the Justices to the IRS could pay all of West Virginia’s SNAP recipients for at least five days.

But Justice and his businesses apparently — somehow — neglected to pay those taxes, as well as thousands of dollars' worth of county taxes in West Virginia.

The U.S. Senate and House passed the Big, Beautiful Bill that lowered taxes on the rich and to

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