U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate Floor on the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reckless tax-and-spending bill. Senator Crapo serves as the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over our nation’s tax policies. In his speech, Crapo highlights the many harmful tax hike … Continue reading Here’s how Democrat reckless spending and tax hikes kill jobs
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New permanent welfare with no work requirements. Reams of Green New Deal mandates. Massive tax hikes that shrink wages and kill jobs. Government meddling in childcare that would privilege certain families’ choices over others’.
Based on the cost of prior loan pauses, this extension will cost an estimated $20 billion to subsidize over the next four months, on top of the $76 billion already spent on the loan pauses over the last year and a half.
Bipartisanship cannot be an excuse for bad policy. This is not a bill focused on fixing roads and bridges, this is a down payment on a Washington takeover of America’s economy – expanding federal programs and mandates while spending hard-earned tax dollars with little regard for results.
Democrat candidates in Pennsylvania are already sprinting as far Left as possible, embracing Bernie Sanders’ agenda to ban fracking and destroy Pennsylvania energy jobs and agreeing with the Democrats’ reckless tax and spending spree. Conor Lamb is just another extreme progressive liberal joining the other extreme progressive liberals.
The offsets in the bill will not fully cover what it will spend, certainly not what was claimed in the framework. They fall far short of the promises made. Americans need to know whether and how the federal government plans to actually pay for the full cost of the bill.
As people struggle to stretch their last dollar to afford reliable transportation amid rising gasoline prices, this administration is now asserting more control over the vehicles we drive to work, take our children to school, and live our lives. It’s unfair to people whose car is not a luxury but a necessity. It’s also a radical push for electric vehicles that will make America more dependent on Chinese supply chains and hurt our global competitive edge.
68% of Americans support marijuana legalization, including nearly half of Republicans.
Cheri Beasley, Chuck Schumer’s hand-picked candidate in North Carolina, has only been in the U.S. Senate race for a couple of months and her campaign is already falling apart. It was reported yesterday that her Campaign Manager AND Finance Director quit. Not good! And this isn’t even the first time this has happened for Beasley. If … Continue reading Top Dem Senate recruit struggling as more staffers quit
As Congress faces the end of the extra COVID unemployment payments, it is essential that they end. As they are both economically and personally destructive. Any attempt to reinstate these payments must be vigorously opposed by people on both sides of the aisle who want to promote both a healthy workforce and healthy American ethos
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