Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in reaction to the Senate passage of the $1.2 trillion so-called infrastructure spending bill and how it affects the additional Democrat spending bill they plan to pass on a partisan vote through budget reconciliation: “Yesterday’s announcement by Bernie Sanders, the Socialist senator from Vermont, laying out … Continue reading Here are the Republicans who voted for $1.2 trillion spending spree
Category: Taxation
A liberal activist group appears to hav hacked the IRS and stolen taxpayer information.
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) filed an amendment to the Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend legislation to prevent the monitoring and reporting of sensitive American taxpayer information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by financial institutions. The Democrats’ proposal would press private-sector financial institutions into reporting deposit and withdrawal flows on their customers’ … Continue reading Dem spending bill hides new scheme to let IRS agents spy on Americans
A letter to Biden signed by all 50 Senate Republicans called on him to abandon this tax and stressed that “these changes could force business operators to sell property, lay off employees, or close their doors just to cover these new tax obligations.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement after voting against Democrats' wasteful infrastructure bill: "Too many Republicans just enabled Democrats' efforts to claim bipartisanship, spend over a trillion dollars, and then ram through their $3.5 trillion liberal wish list of crushing taxes and radical spending. The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed … Continue reading Cruz: $1.2 trillion Biden bill the start of $8 trillion in crazed spending
money. Our total debt will skyrocket to $45 trillion in ten years under Bernie’s reckless tax-and-spend plan."
Now Nancy Pelosi has tied this bill to her $3.5 trillion tax and spending spree. We could have all agreed on physical infrastructure. Democrats have made this into political infrastructure.
It drastically expands federal power; it increases spending without legitimate ‘pay-fors’; it exacerbates our already dangerous inflation; and it facilitates burdensome taxes and regulations that will hamper and harm our infrastructure. Ultimately, it will be the American people who will be forced to pay the exorbitant price.
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) vowed that Republicans will do everything in their power to defeat the Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spending spree as he spoke on the Senate floor against the Democrats’ budget resolution. Thune warned that the Democrats’ push to raise taxes and permanently expand the federal government will harm the economy and severely increase … Continue reading Dem spending spree a ticking time bomb strapped to our economy
U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) released the following statement on his vote against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill. “I support targeted investment in upgrading our nation’s roads, bridges, ports, broadband, and other real infrastructure needs. But I cannot support more reckless spending on unrelated pet projects that will suffocate our future generations with mountains … Continue reading Tim Scott rips Dems for blowing up inflation