I’ve got a great new diet for you. It’s called the “You’re Going to Lose Weight” diet.
You start out with breakfast at McDonald’s consisting of a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit; a sausage, egg and cheese McGriddle; sausages, hotcakes and hash browns; and a milkshake. For lunch it’s off to Wendy’s for a big bacon cheddar cheeseburger combo, and another large shake. Since we’ve been watching our calories at breakfast and lunch, we’ll splurge a little for dinner and feast on a full slab of Montgomery Inn ribs with Saratoga chips and a giant Coke.
And to make sure we’re not hungry when we go to bed, we’ll finish off a 38 ounce party bag of M&M peanuts, and a half gallon of Graeter’s raspberry chip ice cream.
And now we’ll watch those pounds melt away, right? They have to, after all we‘re on the “You’re Going to Lose Weight” diet.
Well, just because you slap a label on something, doesn’t mean that’s what you’re going to get. And that’s exactly what the Democrats in Congress are doing this week. Passing a bill, without one Republican vote, called the “Inflation Reduction Act”, which isn’t going to do anything of the kind. It’s a cynical effort to mislead the public and pass a wish list of radical, left-wing policies.
Here are some of the more egregious things it does. First, it does something virtually every economist will tell you not to do during a recession – raise taxes. And if that isn’t bad enough, the bill spends $80 billion to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to audit as many Americans as possible. It would literally double the number of IRS agents we currently have. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Second, this horrible bill subsidizes, with your tax dollars, a bunch of radical AOC Green New Deal stuff, that will mean higher prices at the pump, as well as higher prices to heat and cool your home, with virtually no significant improvement in the climate. China is going to continue to spew out whatever-the-heck it wants to, which will more than offset anything this bill tries to do.
Third, socialist price control schemes in this sorry bill will result in reduced research and development. That means fewer cutting-edge life-saving drugs being developed, so more of us will get what could’ve been preventable diseases – so lower quality of life and shorter life spans than would have otherwise been possible. Potential cures for Alzheimer’s, cancer, you-name-it, will be pushed further into the future.
I could go on, but it’s just too darn depressing. If we’d have just held either of those Senate seats in Georgia back in 2020, the Democrats wouldn’t have had the votes to push this monstrosity through.
And that’s why this fall’s election is so important. If we take either house, or both, we’ll be able to stop awful bills like this from passing. We won’t have a shot at the presidency until 2024, but perhaps Biden (or Kamala) will take a page from Bill Clinton’s book, and actually work with a Republican Congress. After all, that’s when we got the first balanced budget in a generation through, welfare reform, and a number of other important pieces of legislation (and the country thrived.)
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We must focus on winning the House, and hopefully the Senate, this November. And one of the seats in the House that’s being seriously contested, is the one I hold.
Hope you can help us win. Thanks, and see you next week.