Last week Speaker Pelosi attempted to ram through a debt limit hike, an infrastructure bill, and a $3.5 trillion dollar spending and tax hike bill all at the same time. Luckily for the American people, her plans went over like a lead balloon with the rest of the conference, who are increasingly hearing from their constituents, including AMAC members, about the need to stop the reckless spending and halt the attempts to raise taxes on America’s small businesses.
Even still, many in the administration and Democrat party continue to push for tax hikes that would kill jobs and hurt the economy. That’s because Democrats see the current moment as a unique window in time to raise taxes. Currently, Democrats have slim but unified control of Congress, and many of President Biden’s approval numbers are to say it politely – completely in the tank. Many self-fashioned “moderate” Democrats are becoming nervous that their seats may be in jeopardy during next year’s mid-term elections. Leadership is becoming understandably nervous about fumbling the Biden agenda and feeling a great deal of urgency in pushing whatever they can muster through Congress before 2022 – a year in which many political handicappers predict Democrats could easily lose the House and claw to keep control of the Senate. The Sanders and Manchin wings of the party continue to have it out over the remaining agenda.
Senator Sanders (D-VT) hoped to hold Democrats’ feet to the fire to pass a $3.5 trillion spending and tax hike bonanza. So far, his ambitions are being cut back and watered down as Senator Manchin (D-WV) insists he won’t support that amount of additional spending. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is also publicly expressing her discontent with the spending and tax increases proposed by the administration and is coming under public attack for doing so. Saturday Night Live, which is clocking historically low ratings as the writers, as much of the cast continues to expose themselves as unabashed partisan leftists, attacked Senator Sinema publicly for not agreeing to the laundry list of leftists priorities being pushed by Sanders. The pressure is on from Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself.
Congress remains at a standstill as party leaders for the Democrats attempt to walk the tight rope between demands from the base to raise taxes to historic highs and moderate Democrats who are getting an earful from constituents back home and are seeing their poll numbers rapidly falling. So far, Democratic leadership has taken a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach to governing. Proposals range from Green New Deal policies to huge tax increases on small businesses and many making less than $400,000, breaking a key tenet of President Biden’s campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. Plans to hike the death tax, roll back small business tax cuts passed under Trump, and increase some taxes on individuals making less than $400,000 will all have the effect of shrinking the economy. At a time when small businesses are working hard to lead the economy out of economic ruin, tax increases are a horrible idea.
Even raising the corporate tax will have a negative effect on wages, jobs, and prices for consumers. The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official scorekeeper on tax issues, finds that at least 25% of the burden of corporate tax increases taxes falls on labor – translation: raising the corporate tax rate will fall at least partly on workers. Is now the right time to cut workers’ salaries? White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s assertion that it would be “ridiculous” for businesses to not completely absorb tax increases is more tone-deafness from an administration clearly short on economic understanding.
The fragile economy, combined with a number of small businesses hanging on by a thread, should be enough to deter any proposed tax increases. But because leaders of the Democratic party know they may have limited time to impose these harmful tax increases and more welfare spending on the American people, they persist in pushing their leftist agenda forward. The party’s ambitions are increasingly running into the reality of an uncooperative Congress, though, and it won’t be long before voters have the chance to take the Speaker’s gavel away from Pelosi and demote Chuck Schumer to Senate minority leader.
Bob Carlstrom is President of AMAC Action
They are NOT tone deaf. Socialists have always claimed that the only reason socialism has always failed everywhere it has ever been tried is because NOT ENOUGH MONEY WAS DEVOTED TO IT. If the countries that adopted socialism had just thrown much more money at it and given it more time, then their Utopian fantasy would have become a reality. That’s what they think anyway. Ask any self-admitted Socialist and that is the answer you are going to get 99.99 percent of the time.
Well the American Socialist party (the Democrats) are trying to do exactly that by trying to get their $7.5 trillion dollar (real cost of the current 2,500 page bill in the House) transformation package and the smaller $1.2 trillion dollar so-called infrastructure bill, which is only 29 percent actual, real infrastructure spending, across the finish line by any means necessary. They also fully intend to keep throwing more money at it until 1) they cause the complete financial collapse of the United States or 2) the American people finally grow a spine and remove the Socialists from their positions of power.
Unfortunately, the Democrat Party is completely under Socialist control at this time. While the Democrat Party, created to support slavery, has had Leftist leanings even before the terms fascism and Socialism became well known, the Democrat Party today is completely controlled by the Socialist billionaires and Communist nations that support it.
For this reason, Democrats are going to continue to do everything they can to force as many American citizens to become dependent on government so those in political power can control US more easily. Yes; we will all become more equal…more equally poor with much less freedoms.
The problem stems from election fraud. The only thing democrats know is cheating. No sane person would have voted for Biden.
I find it ludicrous that we allowed the 2020 election to stand.
My elders who endured the pain from Socialist FDR said this about the now ( D ) communists –
TAX
SPEND
LIE
CONTROL
This is what they ( D ) communists do. Looking back into history ? The gold confiscation by FDR.
Imagine clinton, obama, or biden thought about it. ( no caps intended due to disrespect )
The policies, taxes, budgets, etc. now being pushed have historically been economic failures, as we are seeing from the beginning of the 2021 take over. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” They will go out with a blase and they’re going to take us all with them into the ashes of a once great nation. Hardly glorious.
AMAC, Please stop referring to them as Democrats! . . . THEY’RE COMMUNISTS,
plain and simple! . . . Just compare their national platform to what Josef Stalin “promised” the Russian people. Bernie Sanders “honeymooned” in Moscow. What “real” American would do that? And HE’S THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE COMMUNIST SO-CALLED “3.5 TRILLION” DESTROY AMERICA LEGISLATION!
THE ANSWER: The DemocRats always choose the route that favors their partisan interests and to Hades with everyone else. Another way of putting it :>: They are in the Communist role and raising taxes benefits the National Communist DemocRats Party and its “Comrades”..
As long as we keep electing RINOs rather than Conservatives the Democrats will always raise taxes and waste our money.
I don’t believe the dims are tone deaf for a single minute. When will people wake up to the fact that the dims are now global communistic, “elitist” tyrants that WANT TO CRASH the fragile economy. They WANT TO flood the country with illegals. They WANT TO make the U.S. dependent on foreign energy. The WANT violent crime to rise dramatically and then call for the elimination of 2A. EVERYTHING that they are doing is meant to crash the U.S. and topple us from super-power status. If you wanted to destroy the U.S., you would be doing everything that this regime and Congress are doing…AND THEY ARE. It’s all 100% intentional. Those that haven’t figured that out yet are as comatose as puppet-boy joey. “LET’S GO BRANDON!”
The tax increase is not about benefiting America, it’s about this woke Crap, the green new deal, it’s about making America a crap whole 3rd world country and making America no better than Bangladesh, and to Bitch McConnell and the 10 other RINO idiots, why are you losers aiding and abiding the destruction of America, the only reason I would want you for my Senator is so I could campaign against you and vote you out of office, every one of you have lost your minds. My wife and I went through this same garbage when the halfwit Obama was the exalted ruler and lost half of our retirement, I guess they won’t to see if they can wipe us out this go around. I will refuse to make a campaign contribution to the RNC if they let McConnell get away with this, they should not give any of these Benedick Arnolds money collected from hard working true Republicans, who support the RNC.
Bottom line, total economic collapse. Just what happens in any country fraudulently taken over by budding communist dictators. Castro breezed into Cuba promising the moon and stars…they bought it and are now a poor, communist dictatorship. Every nation brought to economic ruin has been by design. Make the peasants dependent, promise them the moon and stars, and you control them. Meanwhile the destroyers live luxuriously off the backs of the people. It’s an age old curse.
Sadly in America we had Founders with insight and vision. Founders who’d fled their homeland to settle a new and free nation. They risked their lives, honors and fortunes to create safeguards to our liberty, true justice, freedom to improve, education etc. But one sentence in our Constitution has been either unknown, or ignored by we the people; “Of the people; For the people and By the People.” Our nation was built on freedom and the ability of the citizens to hold our government accountable…unfortunately the American dream took up the time…politicians did what benefitted them all the while promising this and that if we’d just “trust them” that they had our best interests at heart.
Two of our Founders nailed it: Sam Adams: “When a nation forgets it’s God, tyrants soon forge it’s chains”. Ben Franklin when asked what the best form of government is said, almost prophetically: “A Republic, IF you can keep it.” Oh one more quote by our first President George Washington;”Firearms are the liberty’s teeth.” Think about that one as the wannabe dictators continue to lie, obfuscate and threaten to disarm law abiding citizens…but criminals run loose….indeed.
“Communist” equals “ANTI-American”. There is NO common ground to be found, because they are OPPOSITES.
I’m so tired of listening to commentators yammer I’m about the impending doom that draws nearer with each passing day. These ‘communist leftists’ ARE THE ENEMY… How Much More Plain Can That Fact Become? No matter where they were born, they are not of us. We need to begin dealing with them as such. Those who choose to side with the ENEMY, should be treated as the ENEMY.
No More Talk; It’s Time For Action. For it’s “ACTIONS WHICH SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS”! It’s the language which leaves no room for “misunderstanding”.
Does anyone actually believe, that they care one idiom for the people who pay taxes and their salaries? They are so full of the money stuffed in their pockets by big PAC funds, they can’t see anything else. Also, there are elections coming up and they are not going to spend time in Washington D.C. doing legislation details. And the voting that they do is not as clear-cut as publicized. If you check exactly how they are voting, most of the time they are merely voting present versus pro or con and Dear old Nancy Pelosi counts a present vote as a pro vote –Go figure. I know for a fact that my newly-elected Congressperson Jamal Bowman votes only present as does most of the progressive liberals from New York. They all talk the talk but don’t actually vote it as a reality because it would show up on their record when it fails.
Well in my view, not taking a position is just as bad and I will remember that come to Election Day, every year. We have 4 proposals plus a few candidates to vote on this year 2021 in New York. They are hoping that only a few people will vote (less than 15% of the total registered voters) so they can pass these without anyone noticing what happened. This is where an informed person eliminates the falsity moves of acceptance of demands by those in power.
Mr. Carlson,
Really enjoyed the article, it was very informative.
Sad truth is the democrats just don’t care about Citizens, or what they think, what’s good or bad for them.
These arrogant,self serving liars care only about power,money and their failed party politics.
They have been preaching the same useless,failed policies racism and division for over 50 years.
Lay seeds for Depression 2 & bust Economy
Ready for the chorus… Na Na Na Na… Na Na Na Na… Hey Hey Hey… GOODBYE!
Vote ALL incumbents O-U-T!
Democrats who favor the tax increases just want the money. They don’t notice that shutting down American oil and gas production will reduce the total productivity–less product = fewer taxes. Lower GDP is the result. This is a lose lose proposition.
Why are the Democrats doing this? Simple. They want to destroy this country, and everything that made it great, in the first place! They are all about “ME”, not “WE”…
For a full, educated and factual history on the coming communist regime get Mark Levin’s book “American Marxism.” This agenda isn’t new. It’s been in the shadows for decades.Mark is a Constitutional scholar with few equals. He also has a program (one of the few left on Fox that hasn’t gone left!) on Sundays 6:00 P.M. Rocky Mountain time…if you can find a copy of “1984” by George Orwell get it!
Have no doubts about where our America is going. There is one goal and one only; destroy our economy, continue to eat away at our RIGHTS, steal our bank accounts, our investments, our homes, our transportation, make people dependent on “welfare” (just what’s happening now as more business close for lack of workers) which will become less and less over time. The left is all about becoming the “ruling class” and we the people the managed peons. This is also why the left has been rabid to disarm this country. It has nothing to do with crime (they’ve also deliberately weakend our justice system) and all about making sure we the people are unable to fight back…sound familiar? Look at China’s history, Cuba’s history, Rwanda, and many other now starving and destitute nations.
Our Constitution and Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence are endangered like at no other time in history.
Go after do nothing congressmen…they are NOT kings and queens! Go after your local politicians, write letters, make calls, sit in front of their doors…what ever it takes.It’s been said many times:Our Constitution is OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
Translation, politicians are not kings despite how they live off the people’s backs. They are weak, fallible and mostly human…according to our Founders the politicians were supposed to serve the people…how’s that workin’?
Look, I
m a far, far right wing conservative and I despise the liberal agenda, but lets not pretend that ANY of them in Washington understand the proper role of government, and wont tax and spend to fund their personal agendas. Im sick and tired of all our money being spent on things that government has NO authority to spend our money on, then hand wringing about how they now must levy additional taxes upon us just to fund the things government IS supposed to take care of. And this goes on at the Statehouse too! It`s GOT to STOP!I stopped watching Saturday night live a long time ago. Those in Hollywood, sports and music idols are the MOST CLUELESS people I have ever seen.
The vast majority of politicians have zero experience or understanding of economics as so many seem to come from a law background (I.e. ambulance chasers) who’ve never had to consider supply chains, advertising, payroll etc the way most small businesses, mom & pop stores and the like do. They don’t understand the start-up costs of an entrepreneur at the very beginning of chasing their dreams and couldn’t care less about helping them only thinking of how much they can squeeze out of them IF they’re successful! They have zero understanding that businesses have to actually be able to keep their doors open in order to pay their taxes so if you tax them into closing, YOU NO LONGER HAVE THOSE TAXES COMING IN! And, now you have to pay out more in unemployment benefits! Yes, taxes need to be paid, it is an understood reality for every small business owner, but it is a long-term “race” if these idiots want to keep money coming in not a “1 & done” sprint because you killed the business. Trump is a very successful and intelligent business man not a politician which is why everything he did stimulated growth and success in the economy and because he did exactly what politicians are incapable of they hate him for it! He worked FOR Americans and the knew success for anyone who wants to try is a good thing for America!
I am sharing that I joined the AMAC invitation to let representatives know my opposition to HIGHER TAXES ON Senior s Capitol gains I received feedback from CA Democrat Rep ; consisted of 1 or 2 . PAGES justifying the high high tax programs
I SENT REPLY TO THE 81 yo Rep YOU ARE A SENIOR CITIZEN – YOU ARE NOT ADVOCATING FOR ME THIS IS BUT ONE OF MANY INJUSTICES IN CA IE TAXES ON A NEW MATTRESS. ALL CANS OF PAINT EVERY STICK OF WOOD AND LUMBER TAX FOR FUTURE DISPOSAL OF A NEWLY PURCHASED COMPUTER ETC ETC ALSO TAX OF 10 CENTS ON ALL GROCERY BAGS NOW CITIES ARE ALSO STARTING TO CHARGE FEE DISGUISED AS PREVENTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL WASTE ??????
TAXES TAXES AND MORE TAXES DO NOT KNOW WHERE ALL THIS MONEY GOES SCHOOLS SAY THEY DO NOT HAVE 3NOUGH MONEY FOR BOOKS ???????
DEMS LOVE LOVE LOVE TAXES IT PROVIDES MORE POWER AND $$$$$$$$ FOR THE PARTY !
Thee ONLY WAY these Progressive Liberal imbiciles make it into our government is by cheating, plain and simple! There are just not enough stupid people in this country willing to vote for all these jackasses!!
“Why Democrats are Still Pushing for Tax Hikes in a Fragile Economy” – simple, they want nothing less than the complete destruction of our country!