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Category: Spending
Who Hates America More Than Biden?
Writing in “The Mountain Democrat,” a Lake Tahoe regional website, Larry Weitzman asks the question in the title of his article – “Who hates America more? Russia, China or Joe Biden and Democrats?” Some might say that it is only…
The Only Thing Biden Has to Offer is Fear
Early in November, an NBC poll showed that 71% of Americans believe the country is on the “wrong track” and only 22% believe it is moving in the right direction. These are not only horrible numbers for the Biden administration…
Manipulating Inflation Numbers
Imagine a world in which I was legally allowed to steal 13–30% of your wealth every single year, and lie to you about how much I’m stealing. Welcome to Planet Earth, 2021. Strange Sounds The U.S. has fallen to 20th…
The Government Family Plan
No amount of money can replace the moral problems that plague society. John Horvat II Biden, working on the so-called American Families Plan is facing pressure from Pelosi and Bernie Sanders over whether to use the plan to strengthen ObamaCare…
Build Back What!!!!!
Deficit Spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Alan Greenspan The Tax Foundation estimates that Biden’s “Build Back Better” tax and spending legislation will reduce long-run economic output by 0.98%, and eliminate 303,000 full-time equivalent jobs.…
Sticking It To The Rich?
Bernie Sanders claims that those who have billions shouldn’t exist because, as a true socialist, he believes that if the state taxes wealth away from those in possession of an “unacceptable” amount of wealth and then redistributes it to lower…
Using Digital Dollars to Control
“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild Did you know that bill denominations of $500, $1000, $5,000 and $10,000 were removed from circulation in 1969 by order of…
Swamponomics
NEWS FLASH: Experts say there is no inflation – unless you eat, rent or own your home, or seek medical care. The U.S. government claims that there is no increase in prices, except for things that consumers are buying. That…
The Moving Forward To Destruction Act
The White House kept Trump’s plan to spend $1 trillion to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure, from highways to roads to water on the backburner, waiting to reveal the card when it was expedient. As it turns out, Democrats now think…
A $52 Trillion Fantasy
Leading Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has officially unveiled her “Medicare for All” plan. This program is based on fantasy financing. According to Warren, it will cost $52 trillion over ten years, but a middle-class tax increase…
Creating Federal Jobs Outside the Beltway
Republican Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee recently proposed a new bill, as yet unnumbered, to move 90% of federal agency jobs out of Washington, D.C. Dubbed the HIRE bill, Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy Act…
Living Off the Interest
Depending on who you happen to listen to, some two-thirds, or three-fourths, or nine-tenths of the United States government is illegal — meaning that what it is and what it does it falls outside the limits prescribed by Article I,…
Children of the State
The modern welfare state’s tentacles of paternalistic control reach into every corner of personal and social life. It has made us all “children of the state,” and weakened our desire and appreciation for self-responsibility. The modern welfare state had its…
Hillary Clinton economic plan – Tax more and spend more
Income Tax Increase – $350 Billion: Clinton has proposed a $350 billion income tax hike in the form of a 28 percent cap on itemized deductions. Business Tax Increase — $275 Billion: Clinton has called for a tax hike of at…