The Democrat policy is still communism by increments, same as it has been for years. The difference now is that the increments are huge:

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is increasing benefits by an average of 27% over pre-pandemic levels under the guise of updating its Thrifty Food Plan. This is the basket of foods that the government uses to determine benefit size, which averaged $130 per person monthly before the pandemic. Benefits are adjusted annually for food inflation.

Thanks to Democrats, inflation is shooting toward the stars. Most of us have to pay more for less. Not welfare recipients. Their benefits keep pace with the inflation that Democrats are deliberately creating as part of their war on the middle class.

Liberals argue that healthy food costs more; therefore, we must give welfare spongers more of our money, as if there were some chance they would spend it on healthy food instead of toxic garbage. In reality, more food stamp loot is spent on sweetened beverages than vegetables.

A lurch deeper into socialism, supposedly justified by the pandemic, will be made permanent by Biden’s Marxist handlers.

Congress increased benefits by 15% during the pandemic, though this fillip is set to end in September. The Administration’s regulatory expansion will be permanent. A family of four will get up to $835 per month after adjusting for inflation. The average four-person household in the U.S. spent only $537 per month on food at home in 2019.

Why should toiling slaves eat as well as their masters, who vote instead of work for a living?

This is obviously not about need. It is about affixing ever more greedy mouths to the government teat, the better to reduce us to a nation of farm animals and to reenact the Soviet Union in North America.

Neither is it about health, despite the laughable rhetoric from our rulers:

A 2018 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined diet quality of food-stamp beneficiaries and similar low-income individuals who didn’t receive the handouts from 2003 to 2014, a period in which average benefits increased more than 50%. Low-income food-stamp non-beneficiaries ate more healthily than beneficiaries, and their diets also improved more over time.

Welfare is bad for you. Who would have guessed?

Like other Great Society programs, food stamps have done nothing to reduce poverty and little to improve public health.

However, they have achieved their purpose by moving the ratchet several notches closer to Stalin territory by encouraging dependence on the government and degrading the indispensable concepts of personal responsibility and private property.

On a tip from Varla.