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Democrats are being called out for claiming that their $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” bill will somehow “help families get ahead,” despite it being loaded with taxes that experts say will ultimately leave America and its citizens significantly poorer.
Tom Elliott, the founder of Grabien Media, discovered that the $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill contains 1,829 instances of the word “tax,” 69 instances of the word “taxes” and seven instances of the word “taxation.”
FYI: The word “tax” is used 1,829 times. The word “taxes” is used 69 times. The word “taxation” is used 7 times.
Supposedly all of these new taxes add up to $3.5 trillion
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 30, 2021
All this “taxation,” he added, will be used to fund more than just free giveaways. It’ll also be used to fund “woke” nonsense.
Observe:
Thread: Things I find while randomly scanning Democrats’ latest $3.5 trillion spending bill
1) $15 million to Older American Act (OAA) resource centers for people “who are underserved due to their sexual orientation or gender identity” pic.twitter.com/xkXki8Nhqh
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 30, 2021
2) A provision amending ObamaCare so as to boost outreach to “sexual minorities” and people who don’t speak English pic.twitter.com/NTo24zSn9g
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 30, 2021
3) $24 million in rent support for victims of “stalking” and “dating violence” pic.twitter.com/zUvb3ntHCE
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 30, 2021
4) $50 million to “reduce human-wildlife conflicts on National Forest System land” pic.twitter.com/Y0kduJoUgc
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 30, 2021
5) $2.25 billion for @AOC’s “Civilian Climate Corps,” which by her own admission is premised on FDR’s failed Civil Works Administration (CWA).
(Note the guaranteed minimum salary.) pic.twitter.com/7I5y5pUmM4
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 30, 2021
Etc., Etc., Etc. …
California Rep. Eric Swalwell, drew particularly intense fire earlier this week when he tried to frame the bill as a choice between spending money on tax cuts and spending money on ostensibly helping people.
“We have a choice: spend trillions on tax breaks, tax loopholes, & tax evasion by the super wealthy OR help families get ahead in a durable economy that works for everybody,” he tweeted.
“Every poll is clear: Americans support #BuildBackBetter and want it done! #BidensAgendaWorksForUS,” the California congressman added.
Look:
We have a choice: spend trillions on tax breaks, tax loopholes, & tax evasion by the super wealthy OR help families get ahead in a durable economy that works for everybody.
Every poll is clear: Americans support #BuildBackBetter and want it done!#BidensAgendaWorksForUS
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) September 29, 2021
Despite claims otherwise from the left, no money is “spent” when taxes are cut and thus the government is forced to deprive Americans of less of their hard-earned money.
Such a framing of tax cuts is, in fact, quite “Orwellian,” according to respected conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
Also fun to characterize Americans keeping their tax dollars as “wasting money,” but spending trillions on centralized government programs as “investment.” This is complete Orwellian nonsense.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 27, 2021
Moreover, “every poll” is not clear.
A recent poll commissioned by the center-right American Action Network found that over 50 percent of voters in Iowa’s third district, New Jersey’s seventh district, and Virginia’s second district — all key swing states — oppose the bill.
GOP internal polling in swing districts on $3.5T social spending bill (commissioned by AAN):#IA03 (Axne): 46 favor/51 oppose#NJ07 (Malinowski): 46 favor/51 oppose#VA02 (Luria): 47 favor/ 52 oppose
(via @PunchbowlNews)https://t.co/vDyyefqX6B— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) September 29, 2021
The question wording: “President Biden and the Democrats in Congress have proposed a $3.5 trillion
bill that they say would strengthen the social safety net, invest in climate policy, expand Medicare,
childcare and paid leave, create universal pre-K and…” 1/2— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) September 29, 2021
“… make incentives for green energy adoption.
Knowing this, do you favor or oppose Congress passing this $3.5 trillion bill?” 2/2— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) September 29, 2021
Some of the many Americans who oppose the bloated bill were quick to share their disdain for it with Swalwell.
Look:
This is a flat out lie. Just so you understand
這是一個徹頭徹尾的謊言— Rich Robinson (@richrobby) September 30, 2021
Actually you also have the choice to cut spending and spare working class Americans from even more inflation.
But that would require you to not be insane and economically illiterate, Fartman.
— AdamInHTownTX (Sixteen Cents Richer) (@AdamInHTownTX) September 29, 2021
This is sad.
The left has so convinced their base that “tax breaks” equal expenditures- “spend” – they can’t even understand that not only is this entirely false, but rather the real problem is how (and how much of) our actual tax dollars are spent- by government.
— Critical Thinking (@irtated_bowels) September 30, 2021
Liar. nobody supports this. It is Lunacy. HUGE tax on the working people, with your meat taxes and your mileage taxes. Killing the little guy and telling them it costs nothing. Bunch of liars. Nothing you say is true.
You’re a CCP asset, and we all know it.
— Just That Handy (@pocketonashirt) September 30, 2021
Maybe Americans with half a brain support this #BuildBackBetterBull, but those who aren’t #gullible know that dems are all about taxing us to death!
— Carla Conway (@Scottwc427) September 30, 2021
It appears those who do support the bill are indeed either “gullible” or economically illiterate because the wider, long-term implications of the bill are not good.
A recent analysis by the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model found that the bill will engender a 4.8 percent reduction in the nation’s GDP by 2050, meaning lower wages, less economic growth, and less personal wealth.
But much of this is hidden from the public’s sight. The trick Democrats employed was to offer freebies — free community college, subsidized universal pre-K, subsidized child care, extended child tax credits — that ostensibly “expire” sometime in the future.
This makes it easy for supporters of the bill to claim that any negatives from it will themselves “expire” sooner rather than later.
But as former President Ronald Reagan once noted, government programs never actually expire.
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”
-Ronald Reagan
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) November 20, 2020
Instead, the programs continue as the public grows used to them, and politicians then quietly spike taxes further — usually on the state or local level this time around — to keep the programs funded in perpetuity.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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