Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is set to sign a bill into law that would restrict recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a federal aid program, from spending that money in places the state considers too decadent for welfare recipients to frequent.

On the list of welfare no-nos:

No TANF cash assistance would be available to be used to purchase alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco products, lottery tickets, concert tickets, professional or collegiate sporting event tickets, tickets for other entertainment events intended for the general public, or sexually oriented adult materials. No TANF cash assistance would be allowed for use in a liquor store, casino, gaming establishment, jewelry store, tattoo or body piercing parlor, spa, massage parlor, nail salon, lingerie shop, tobacco paraphernalia store, vapor cigarette store, psychic or fortune telling business, bail bond company, video arcade, movie theater, swimming pool, cruise ship, theme park, dog or horse racing facility, parimutuel facility, or an adult sexually oriented retail business or entertainment establishment.

Apparently Kansas’ pro-growth Republicans in are willing to take a significant chunk of money out of the state’s burgeoning cruise industry if it means sticking it to poor people.

Last night, Kansas State Senator Michael O’Donnell went on All In with Chris Hayes to defend the bill. He should have known better:

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It’s a rough couple of minutes for Senator O’Donnell, who admitted that the amount of Kansas TANF money being spent at all of these locations was negligible, and that some of the locations (like cruise ships) may not have received any TANF money at all.

However, the two best questions Hayes asked weren’t about the restrictions in the bill; they were about the restrictions not in the bill.

First, as Hayes noted, the bill does not prohibit Kansan TANF recipients from buying guns with their aid money. O’Donnell responded that “we do not restrict everything you can and can’t buy.”

But only a minute earlier, he had said that the only reason for adding cruises to the list was for “structural” reasons. That ban is only there to cover their bases in case a particularly decadent welfare recipient wanted to sail on the government’s dime. That cruises — along with nail salons, body piercings, casinos and other decidedly un-Kansan lifestyle choices — were banned ahead of guns shows that the bill has little to do with encouraging productivity from aid recipients and everything to do with shaming people who Republicans in Kansas think are too irresponsible to buy gas and groceries.

Second, in his last question, Hayes pointed out that Kansas receives has received $16 billion in federal farm subsidies since 1995 and 2012, or $888 million per year. He didn’t mention, but it’s worth noting, that Kansas received $174 million in TANF funds — 1/5 of their annual farm subsidy — in 2013. So, when will Kansas pass similar restrictions for recipients of those federal dollars?

To this, O’Donnell could only say that “I believe that…they’re abiding by the rules set in place by the federal government,” before attempting to sing a love song to his federal representatives who have made damn sure that Kansas keeps raking in their corn money. Kansas doesn’t need to place restrictions on federal dollars when those dollars are for farmers. Apparently, farmers don’t gamble. Or go to movies. Or have tattoos. Or go on cruises. And they definitely don’t buy cigarettes or liquor. Ever.

This welfare-shaming bill is being billed as a way to create jobs in Kansas, but even the most basic questions about what is and isn’t included in the list of what TANF recipients can’t spend their money on shows that it has nothing to do with that. Republicans just want to make it harder to be poor.