BY RICK MORAN | P J MEDIA
Photo: Minority Leader Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy - AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Democrats in the House approved the most massive increase
in social spending in the nation’s history, passing a bill that may cost as
much as $2 trillion dollars.
House Republicans were able to delay the vote, which had
originally been scheduled for Thursday. Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy
took the floor and spoke for more than eight hours on Thursday night and into
Friday morning. It was the longest floor speech in the history of the House of
Representatives.
The vote was close — 220-213 with a lone Democrat,
Jared Golden of Maine, voting against the bill, along with all Republicans
present.
The Washington Post accurately summed up the
disaster.
The
measure adopted Friday amounts to a dramatic re-envisioning of the role of
government in Americans’ daily lives. It sets aside in some cases historic sums
to aid workers, families and businesses, seeking to rewire the very fabric of
an economy still recovering from the financial devastation wrought by the
coronavirus pandemic.
In
bearing the name of the president’s 2020 campaign slogan, the successful 220 to
213 House vote on the Build Back Better Act marks the second legislative
milestone for Democrats this month. It comes about two weeks after they joined
with Republicans to finalize a separate, sweeping bill to improve the nation’s
roads, bridges, pipes, ports and Internet connections, delivering long-sought
infrastructure investments that Biden signed into law Monday.
The Post downplayed the worst of it. In fact, the bill is
a radical departure from the norm. It will forever alter the relationship
between the American people and their government, allowing Washington to be
more intrusive, more dominating, more obvious in the daily lives of the
nation’s citizens.
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Build Back Better Bill Puts Government in Every Area of Our Lives
By M. Dowling | Independent Sentinel
Nancy Pelosi suddenly announced yesterday that she was
going to force a vote on the so-called “Build Back Better” spending package,
which promised to pass in the middle of the night. It’s an evil bill.
The bill changes the relationship between the government
and the people with the government in full control.
The
Washington Post was accurate when they wrote this:
The
measure amounts to a dramatic re-envisioning of the role of government in
Americans’ daily lives. It sets aside in some cases historic sums to aid
workers, families and businesses, seeking to rewire the very fabric of an
economy still recovering from the financial devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.
The
bill allows the government to intrude in every area of our lives.
This
is probably a 4+ Trillion spending package when one considers how all these
programs will grow and it includes all of Biden’s most radical agenda items.
House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoiled Pelosi’s plan to hold the vote in the
middle of the night by basically filibustering for over eight hours. While the
House doesn’t have a filibuster, leaders of each party can talk as long as they
want in the House.
Democrats had to reschedule the vote for the morning.
It passed by four votes with only one Democrat voting
against it. All the rest want socialism/communism.
Hopefully, it won’t get through the Senate.
The bill does not include the Hyde Amendment, which means
everyone has to pay for everyone else’s abortions.
Religious daycares and preschools no longer get federal
education dollars.
It will give amnesty to the majority of illegal aliens in
the United States, including criminals. It gives illegals welfare while
slashing Border Patrol and ICE funding.
Illegal aliens who snuck into the country, and who are
immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, and have lived here since Jan. 1, 2011,
can immediately apply for a green card upon a grant of parole. That is a path
to citizenship.
The bill pushes funding to the CCP and entities that use
slave labor. It funds the Green New Deal communism – for example, $85
million provides for education and training programs on the effects of climate
change on pregnant “individuals”. It adds money to the pile we already send to
the corrupt UN, and pushes the Left’s gun control agenda.
Nearly $3 billion goes to tree equity. The largest
chunk of the bill goes to gender issues, anti-discrimination and bias
training, civilian climate corps, universal pre-K, family leave, tax perks for
media, welfare budget increases, food stamp increases, 85,000 IRS agents to
surveil our accounts, and welfare, welfare, welfare.
Most of the freebies specify minorities. Whites will pay
for it and like it.
Here are a few more items from the Americans for Tax
Freedom:
1.
Highest personal income tax rate in the
developed world.
2.
Highest capital gains tax rate since the
1970s.
3.
All 50 states will have combined
federal-state top income tax rates above 50%.
4.
Eight states will pay a combined
federal-state tax rate of over 60%.
5.
87,000 new IRS auditors and agents.
6.
50% increase in small business audits.
7.
1.2 million more annual IRS audits; about
half will hit households making less than $75k.
8.
2.5 billion special tax handout for trial
lawyers.
9.
$8 billion home heating tax.
10. $1.6 billion special tax handout for media
companies of any size. Each company–broadcast, print, digital–can claim the tax
handout for up to 1,500 employees.
11. Violation of Biden’s middle class tax pledge
to oppose any and all tax hikes on Americans making less than $50k.
Prepare for inflation as well — never-ending inflation until the money runs out.
