Monday, November 22, 2021

Here’s Everything That’s Wrong With the Build Back Better Spending Bill House Democrats Just Passed

Here’s Everything That’s Wrong With the Build Back Better Spending Bill House Democrats Just Passed
"It's uniquely terrible even by the abysmally low standards we expect from Congress.
  • First, the cost is astronomical...The true cost of the legislation, once one accounts for budget gimmicks and dishonest political rhetoric, is up to $4.9 trillion. That’s an astounding $32,000 per federal taxpayer.
  • And most of this money would go to wasteful government programs and counterproductive expansions of the welfare state...electric vehicle subsidies...It similarly wastes billions funding a “Civilian Climate Corps” that would pay people to do environmental activism that even proponents admit won’t reduce emissions.
  • So, too, the Build Back Better agenda openly violates President Biden’s promises that he wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000. It raises billions in new taxes on nicotine products that millions of working-class Americans regularly consume and hikes corporate taxes that ultimately fall on workers’ shoulders via lower wages. 
  • It does all this while, rather hypocritically, giving the rich a net tax cut...Read all!

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