Senate passes the Inflation Reduction Act
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Technically the large tax hikes might reduce inflation by crashing the economy. Can't have "too much" money when nobody has money.
Also $80 billion to double the number of tax audits because apparently the libs didn't learn how the American people hated the IRS with a burning passion. Lighting $80 billion on fire as a way to try to crack down on and harass the rich.
Imagine how fucking stupid the libs have to be, when this is the last bill they might be able to pass on a party line vote for potentially 10+ years, and what do they waste it on? Hundreds of billions of dollars in additional wind and solar subsidies AFTER wind and solar already dominate new power plant construction to the point where it is causing serious failure points in the grid thanks to a lack of base load plants (such as in Texas).
Fuck Joe Manchin for letting this shit through. Elections matter. Trump caused this bill to pass because he cost Republicans the Georgia special senate elections. Had the Republicans won just 1 of those seats, which they would have but for all the "stolen election" bs causing Rs to stay home, it would have saved our country from something like 7-8 TRILLION in additional wasteful spending these past 2 years.
At least this should be the last of it.
there are people that without a hint of irony think this and imagine themselves savvy political opinion havers. Worse, you get to vote
The problem was Trump complaining SPECIFICALLY about Georgia and including attacks on the Republican secretary of state, right in the middle of a critical special election that the Rs ended up NARROWLY losing because Trump's shit talk caused reduced voter turnout among the base.
People like you are exactly why the Democrats won. You say it was stolen, so that makes Rs not want to bother voting.
The real problem is that Trump just whined about the fraud instead of doing anything about it, such as heads on pikes.
Well yeah, he just wanted Stop the Steal grift bucks. Actually doing shit besides bailing Papa Kush and Israeli spies out of prison carries much more risk.
The Dems were always going to narrowly win those two seats. You don't steal the white house and then not steal the senate.
WTF are you talking about. Trump had the highest voter turnout for any president in history. The Democrats just frauded harder.
Republicans didn't stay home because the election was stolen, which it was. They stayed home because Trump did fuck all about it except anything that might get the problem solved.
There was actually some polling on this, that showed that turnout was depressed the most strongly in the deepest red districts, and the reason for the turnout depression was because the republican voters said that it was pointless since the election was rigged anyway.
Yes, and the solution for that is righteous vengeance for the stolen election, not pretend it never happened and keep people's mouths shut.
The rich?
The Democrat mentality is that taxes only really affect the rich.
Of course the IRS loves to target Republican constituencies like small business owners.
...80 billion to double the number of IRS agents who commit audits.
Let's assume an agent costs 80k, and that you'll be employing them over 10 years. 800k/person. That's probably overpaid from what I understand, but easy math.
10 is 8 million. 10000 is 8 billion. 100,000 is 80 billion.
100,000 auditors.
You don't need an ADDITIONAL 100,000 auditors, to surveil the handful of billionaires and "the rich". That's to police the poor.
That $600 limit is actually why I stopped doing business via PayPal, Cash app, ect and switched to only taking cash for my side hustle.
I tell this to my wife all the time; we're completely average in terms of income and assets, therefore to 50% of the people in the country we are "rich."
They will soak the middle, count on it.
Suburban residents.
You think a "special election" under Raffensperger had anything to do with votes or popular will?
Also: A "waste?" You think it's a Parthian shot to hire tens of thousands of partisan agents "for audits?"
Say...wasn't there news a couple years ago that the IRS was purchasing a bizarrely large amount of ammunition? Gee, I wonder what that was all about.
Yep. I’m still annoyed with Trump about Georgia. I hope Walker can win that seat but we shall see. I’m not against wind and solar but it’s crazy to push those exclusively at the expense of oil and gas and cost people jobs. Also why not build more nuclear plants
Wind and Solar are really over-invested and have been for a while. Nuclear is very under-invested.
Coal is the whipping boy that is getting attacked and driven out of business. The only thing keeping the grid alive for now is the massive amount of natural gas that is needed in order to fill the gaps when solar and wind underperform.
It's just a shitty grid now. We need more base load plants like nuclear or fossil fuels. The libs kept claiming that batteries would fix the situation but batteries can't remotely store enough energy to make any meaningful difference at the scales that are needed. Pumped hydro can do an okay job but the opportunities for it to be built are rare since it needs precise conditions.