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The federal government decides to stop taxing necessities and you say that's "redistribution"?

No, I said the exact opposite; you just have a comprehension problem. If the federal government doesn't want to tax "necessities", then it should simply not tax them. But the system that you are advocating DOES tax necessities, and also sends a government "prebate" handout to every household in the US, whether they actually paid any taxes or not. And since that "prebate" check has nothing to do with taxes paid but is instead simply a government check of arbitrary value (as determined by the "poverty rate", which itself is determined by a federal bureaucracy), it most certainly is "redistribution".

That you can twist words to suggest that making food tax exempt is somehow "marxist" while at the same time insisting that a government handout to every household in the U.S. is not is the height of either stupidity or dishonesty. I am uncertain as to which camp you occupy, but it is clear that limited government is certainly not your objective. For some reason, you insist on creating an unnecessary bureaucracy to provide government handouts as a solution to a problem that could be solved simply by not taxing food and other "necessities".