I read food stamps went up 12.5% in 2024.

It's a fact that food stamps drive up the cost of food for those who have to work for everything.

They get automatic increases that only drives costs all the more.

How Bill? You don't understand inflation at all. SNAP doesn't drive food inflation. Stop being an idiot.

Again, explain how you believe that SNAP drives inflation or don't bother responding. Whenever you're asked to defend a position you've taken, you never give a substantive answer.

Lack of supply accompanied by outsized demand drives inflation along with increased production/distribution costs. There is far enough food to feed every mouth in America. We pay farmers tax money NOT to grow food and the government buys up commodity overstocks and warehouses them.

The inflation we've experienced has been based on two main combo factors: Supply chain disruptions and accompanying cost increases - including wage hikes - passed along to consumers, and companies raising prices/shrinking product sizes beyond said cost increases for their own profiteering.

If you disagree, then respond with counterfactuals and data to support such an argument, or stop and try to learn what you seemly don't understand.

...seemingly...

You talk like you think I believe SNAP is the only driving force behind rising food prices?

Did I write or imply that? Of course not Bill. Just admit that you cannot substantiate your absurd claim and let's call this finished.

Explain how SNAP recipients themselves are drivers of inflation, not it's ONLY driver. SNAP allows recipients to ostensibly purchase food because they have limited resources to do so on their own. How is this inflationary? You act as though these people aren't already accounted for in the food chain. They do not consume food that would have gone to others now willing to pay more for what they can't find to purchase.

You have no connective between SNAP and inflation.

It's an accepted fact that free money programs can drive inflation.

SNAP is not a "free money" program. It's taxpayers supporting other taxpayers who don't have enough food to eat due to their lack of income. SNAP does not create additional demand in and of itself. The food is there in abundance already. SNAP just allows needy taxpayers to acquire what they otherwise can't afford due to the other expenses they have to pay that aren't subsidized by the government.

It is not inflationary.

There are millions less people receiving SNAP today than 4 years ago, so yes, the Biden economy is far better for most Americans today than the Trump economy was 4 years ago. Don't you remember the unprecedented long lines at food banks filled with people who'd never had to seek help getting food before?

Hunger remains a festering problem in America that only one party wants to confront. Biden and Congress provided funding for children to receive additional food benefits during this summer's break to assist struggling parents, yet multiple GOP governors won't allow children in their states to receive these benefits even though it costs the states themselves zero.

I'd rather see subsidies to fossil fuel producers cut before worrying about any effects of SNAP while corporations left and right are raking in record profits.

And just to be clear Bill, every living American needs to eat daily or they'll die. Feeding all Americans is already baked into the pipeline. Even when people do not have money themselves for food and seek it elsewhere, ultimately someone has to pay for the food they receive either through charity donations or SNAP. Others purchase food and then donate it or companies make bulk donations to food distribution groups and organizations who then take tax credits for doing so, allowing them to keep more of their revenues for profit.

Regardless, taxpayers often foot the bill one way or another, but none of the above methods pushes significant inflation.

Americans don't give a ---- about comparisons.

You're absolutely right. So Americans expect their own personal condition to be better than that of every other person on planet Earth, and if it isn't, the President is to blame: The logic of morons.

The US is a part of the global economy just like every other nation. When it exceeds every other country's economic conditions, that is not a failure, it's an achievement. Certain negative economic factors cannot be controlled by political whims any more than the weather can be controlled.

And nothing that the GOP has stated as their economic policy should they control government will make the current conditions any better. NEWSFLASH: Corporations do NOT need tax breaks and higher profits unless pushing inflation further into the stratosphere is your end goal.

"our ship is sinking slower than other's ships"?

What Pollyanna-ish BS. No one's ship is sinking anywhere. If you consider this economy as "sinking" then what was the one Trump stewarded 4 years ago, sunken beyond repair?

Funny thing, we elect a competent President with advisors who actually know what they're doing and we've rebounded far faster and broader than any other economy. And it's getting ridiculous for morons like you to keep ignoring that corporate record profits are the biggest driver of inflation meaning that our economy is hardly "sinking." Do we face ongoing challenges? Absolutely. And not a single Trump policy is designed to deal with ANY of them and would only exacerbate what you're complaining about right now.

And therefore you saw no option but to become a knuckle-dragging fascist.

Just another projectionist who sees a movie about the right but always claims it's really about the left. If the scales ever fall from their eyes perhaps they'd notice that there isn't and never will be any rigid dogma adhered to universally by anyone on the left.

Individually, none of us have monolithic viewpoints nor do we demand fealty to singular points of views as expected from the lemmings on the right marching in lockstep to whatever idiocy is espoused by their leaders on any given day. I have disagreed with every single lefty poster on this thread as they have with me depending upon the issue. The freaking 11th commandment on the right is to never criticize Republicans. Many Democrats criticize each other on a daily basis.

It's telling how distorted this poster's view of reality is. They never realize that the criticisms they level more pointedly are faults they themselves display openly and proudly as badges of honor. And they never tire of taking potshots at any and all whose viewpoints differ from their own - caught in a zero-sum black hole fueling their misplaced anger as they pursue an endless search for the right to have their self-serving claims of superiority taken seriously while they thrust unserious policy after unserious policy into the public square.

Their leader lies like breathing but it's Joe Biden who should be strung up because he tries to express optimism, yet they ignore every single lie Trump made about "his economy" being unparalleled when every measure of growth pales in comparison to that realized by Biden coming out of Trump's fatal mishandling of the covid pandemic which truly did place our economy onto temporary life support.

It's greedflation, stupid

And oil price fixing led by an American Permian Basin company's former CEO: