House Dems Send Sweeping Spending Bill to Biden's Desk

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  1. Bowerbird

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    Touche
     
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    HockeyDad Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The only satisfaction I get out of the 87,000 new agents and their hyper focus on red states and small businesses is that @cd8ed will most almost certainly get a taste of how utterly the federal government detests him. I cannot see his business escaping a hideously expensive and business destroying audit. This bill was passed specifically to destroy small businesses like his. People with w-4s (like me) will most likely escape the government knife..... this is the state going after the Kulaks like @cd8ed. Remember @cd8ed, when they come for you (and they will), you voted for it.

    This bill will of course increase inflation and taxes on the middle class. It makes the plebes a little bit poorer and the elite a little bit richer. It makes the deep state much much more powerful and arms IRS agents. Billions of tax dollars to pay for handouts to Democrat cronies on the climate change grift. Less than 1% of the population gives a damn about climate change but somehow it gets passed. Everything the elites want, they get....... NOTHING the middle class wants matters. The Democrats are the party of the grifters on the top and the grifters on the bottom.
     
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    Well, trump’s in the picture, so you’re right.
     
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    The Afghanistan disaster was a win for Biden?

    "Job growth" after people came back from the pandemic was a win for Biden?

    First female black justice is an "accomplishment"?

    "Rescue" spending plans which cause massive inflation and give free **** to liberal causes was a win for Biden?

    "Infrastructure" spending plans which cause massive inflation and give free **** to liberal causes was a win for Biden?

    "Inflation Reduction Act" spending plans which cause massive inflation and give free **** to liberal causes was a win for Biden?

    Unemployment low because people now get so much free money from the federal government they neither want nor have to work was a win for Biden?
     
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    I have already been through several audits — our COA handles them and we are meticulous with records.

    Nothing to hide

    If it captures some of the fraud I frequently see and hear about it might actually help my businesses as my competitors will be forced to have the same expenses I do.
     
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    Maybe Australia can take some pointers from the U.S. and the ever expanding debt to control inflation :)

     
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    This bill won't help the economy, it's main purpose is the provision of graft for those that demanded it.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Literally everything in that meme is a lie.
    - First African blah blah blah… How is that an “accomplishment”?
    - Afghan pullout: that was an abysmal failure.
    - Inflation reduction? Lol That’s the biggest lie in there.
    - Job growth/unemployment: another lie. COVID ended so obviously people went back to work.
     
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    Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law

    President Joe Biden signed a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday — marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.

    Biden said during a signing ceremony in the State Dining Room that the legislation, called the Inflation Reduction Act, is "one of the most significant laws in our history."

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/poli...4IF9n9Al4D3dwdGES3dXH1+cO&bt_ts=1660681017712

    Well done....... and against much resistance and odds. Hard work, compromise and negotiation............without any sensationalism or unnecessary drama.
     
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    Tell me you don't know how finance works without actually using those words.
     
  11. Egoboy

    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Tell me you don't recognize obvious sarcasm...
     
  12. Doofenshmirtz

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    Republicans made a good call in this case. This has as much chance of reducing inflation as free Molotov cocktails will reduce arson.

    My predictions:

    They take in more money and the environment is no less toxic
    Poor and middle will be disproportionately affected by the more powerful IRS
    Big pharma will enjoy record profits while Americans become fatter and sicker

    If anything, Repubs can run on "We are not the ones that sent the IRS to your door"

    Feel free to bookmark this page and show me how wrong I am.
     
  13. Egoboy

    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Great idea....

    Also, you found something for the Repubs to run on??? Something patently false??

    Congrats!
     
  14. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I wish it were false. Poor people are easy targets for the IRS. They can't afford good accountants and lawyers so they pay up. Here you are cheering for more of the same. Perhaps reps will remind them who brought the wolf to their door. (On top of the steaming pile of results dems are producing.)

    I am confident in my predictions given the history behind each one. I really want to be wrong.

    This has as much chance at inflation reduction as free booze reducing alcoholism.
     
  15. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    What was a win for the Republicans?
     
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