Feds Demand SNAP Back, Ignore Corporate Welfare Black Hole
The Biden administration, via USDA, is reportedly pushing states to claw back SNAP (food stamp) benefits deemed 'overpaid,' often due to administrative errors or changes in recipient status. This directive affects families who already spent the aid on groceries, now facing repayment demands. Yet, the zeal for bureaucratic precision seems to wane when considering the billions in corporate
subsidies, tax loopholes, and bailout funds that rarely face such diligent 'undoing,' even when the recipients are demonstrably profitable. It appears the Treasury Department's audit division is far more aggressive in reclaiming groceries from the poor than in auditing the tax returns of Amazon, which paid $0 in federal corporate income tax in 2017 and 2018 despite billions in profits. How many
times are food-secure families asked to return their 'overpaid' federal largesse? The administrative burden on cash-strapped states for this bureaucratic 'correction' surely costs more than the 'overpayments' themselves, but accountability, it seems, is only served on certain plates.