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10 things you didn't know are in the Democrats' Build Back Better bill
CNN ^
| December 8, 2021
| Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby
Posted on 12/08/2021 10:10:37 AM PST by lowbridge
A sweeping $1.9 trillion spending plan, known as the Build Back Better bill, is making its way through Congress and could make a key part of President Joe Biden's economic agenda a reality.
A majority of the funding is focused on transforming the nation's social safety net by reducing the cost of child and health care, as well as combating climate change.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation would increase the deficit by $367 billion over the next 10 years. But the White House has worked to make the case that the bill will be fully paid for when accounting for a proposal to enhance tax enforcement, which the CBO excluded.
The bill passed the House in November but faces a tough road in the Senate, where it is expected to undergo some changes. As currently written, the legislation would create universal pre-K, send families an enhanced child tax credit and provide beefed-up subsidies on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
Here are 10 of the lesser-known provisions in the Build Back Better bill.
$900 tax credit for purchasing an e-bike
Taxpayers would be allowed to claim a tax credit for purchasing an e-bike before 2026, if the bill passes. It's one of many provisions in the spending package aimed at combating the climate crisis.
The credit would be equal to 30% of the purchase cost, up to $900. It would gradually phase out for higher-income households, starting at $75,000 of income for individuals.
The bill would also allow companies to provide tax-free commuting benefits for employees using a bike, e-bike or scooter to get to work.
$35 cap on insulin costs
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To: butlerweave
In a nice warm climate, probably decent fun especially if you’re not able to use a regular bike due to infirmity.
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posted on
12/08/2021 10:30:58 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(Let's Go Brandon!)
To: 1Old Pro
Better write Mitch and tell him
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posted on
12/08/2021 10:31:27 AM PST
by
tinamina
To: lowbridge
When will this get the name it deserves:
Build Back Bulls#it!!!
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posted on
12/08/2021 10:32:14 AM PST
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
To: DannyTN
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posted on
12/08/2021 10:32:27 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: lowbridge
There’s a lot of convoluted internal stuff, but essentially Mitch McConnell is going to set up a process for Democrats in the Senate to raise the debt ceiling by themselves.

Mitch will enlist the usual Decepticon suspects to change the senate rules, for one-time only, allowing democrats to raise the debt ceiling without having to enter negotiations and concessions for anything republican lawmakers want (like eliminating the Biden spending bill).
McConnell will need nine more republicans to change the process, but it looks like he’s going to be successful.
This will permit Democrats to raise the debt ceiling by approximately $2 trillion, so they can continue debate on Biden’s Build Back Better bill. Yeah, Uniparty gonna Uniparty.
WASHINGTON DC – […] The Senate minority leader spent Tuesday selling his members on a convoluted strategy that would require at least 10 Republicans to approve legislation that would later allow Senate Democrats to raise the debt ceiling by a simple majority vote. After a leadership meeting and a Senate GOP lunch, McConnell said he’d done enough work to clinch the deal in a vote expected on Thursday. (read more)
So the Senate DeceptiCons will *claim* to be against the multi-trillion ‘Build Back Better’, fundamental change, spending bill. Yet they will have facilitated the Democrats not having to negotiate or eliminate anything inside the BBB bill, by removing the leverage of the debt ceiling raise. Yep, Uniparty gotta Uniparty – all courtesy of the DeceptiCon caucus. I hate them.
President Donald Trump notes the Mitch McConnell nonsense in a statement:
“I’m watching Republican Senators talk about fighting the horrendous Build Back Better Bill that the Democrats will push forward, made much easier for them by the 19 Republican Senators who voted for the Democrats Unfrastructure Plan, which is only 11% Infrastructure, and also by McConnell incredibly giving the Democrats a two-month extension, which allowed them to get their act together. Now the Republicans start fighting a much harder war, and I told them this would happen. It’s pathetic! Those 19 Republicans, including the Broken Old Crow, should not be forgotten for what they have done and the absolutely horrible ramifications this Bill will have on the future of our Nation. Just like McConnell blew two Senate seats in Georgia, and wouldn’t fight the Rigged Presidential Election, he gave this one away also.” (link)
Keep in mind this is the end of the political career of Mitch McConnell regardless of the 2022 election outcome. I doubt there’s anything that will shift McConnell’s position, he’s been doing this stuff for years; but only recently did more people wake up to it.
The last federal budget passed under regular order was signed into law in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008. Everything after that has been a series of continuing resolutions, omnibus spending, baseline budget expansions and debt ceiling increases. There has never been a full budget process worked through in the past 14 years.

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posted on
12/08/2021 10:33:16 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: Seruzawa
What about the 300,000 Climate Corps troops?
With AOC as their 86 Star General
To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan
Wtf is an e-bike?Remember mopeds from the 70s and 80s? E-bikes are electric mopeds. At least they still resemble bicycles, whereas gas mopeds were basically scooters.
To: nascarnation
So how much does this one cost?
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posted on
12/08/2021 10:41:36 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
Worst part about owning an E-Bike is having to tell your mother that you’re gay
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posted on
12/08/2021 10:41:50 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)

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posted on
12/08/2021 10:42:03 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: butlerweave
What happened to the 86 thousand NEW IRS agents to audit everything under the sun!!!
To: KarlInOhio
If your idea actually became law, you realize that less than 5 minutes after it was signed a basket of bills would be filed for all sorts of exemptions, credits, subsidies, creating multiple tax brackets, etc. etc. It would be better to repeal the 16th Amendment ... but that will never happen either because the givernment grifters would never let that happen.
To: nascarnation
There are a lot of these and 50HP gasoline scooters around the seacoast of New England in the summer. The reason is that you can get a parking spot for these at a lot of places that there are not enough room for cars. They are great for tourist areas.
A buddy and his wife went up to Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, ME in the summer. They rented a couple of these E-bikes. He said they were great for a couple of 50+ year olds. You could go up a hill doing 15-20mph while everyone else on a regular bike was sweating their butts off. Yet you could peddle on the flat or down hill to go even faster.
To: Red Badger
I saw something yesterday about an entry level affordable ebike, starting at $1099.
Sorry, I do not call that affordable for entry level.
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posted on
12/08/2021 11:03:03 AM PST
by
jrestrepo
(Now I am an insurgent. Starve the beast (any way possible) )
To: butlerweave
Nahhhh. Someone will come steal it n
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posted on
12/08/2021 11:10:03 AM PST
by
ealgeone
To: lowbridge
” bill will be fully paid for when accounting for a proposal to enhance tax enforcement,”
Translation: The bill will be fully paid off the backs of middle class tax payers thru massive tax hikes. At no time will my friends, family or donors see one dime of increases.
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posted on
12/08/2021 11:13:26 AM PST
by
shoff
(Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
To: lowbridge
“would increase the deficit by $367 billion over the next 10 years”
HAHAHAHA I needed a good belly laugh to start the day.
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posted on
12/08/2021 11:16:00 AM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: lowbridge; All
Patriot taxpayers are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the alleged election stealing, elite Democratic pirate lawmakers the specific power to tax and spend for the things that they are trying to do with the Build Back Better bill.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So why is the federal government now so unconstitutionally powerful?
Contrast the Supreme Court's clarification of the greater 10th Amendment (10A) powers of the states in the United States v. Butler excerpt above with what was left of 10A after FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices got finished with it in Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard) which the Court wrongly decided in Congress's favor imo.
In fact, using inappropriate words like “concept” and “implicit,” here is what was left of the 10th Amendment after FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices got finished with it when they wrongly decided Wickard in Congress's favor imo.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood. Certain activities such as "production," manufacturing, and "mining" were occasionally said to be within the province of state governments and beyond the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.

The bottom line is that patriots need to primary incumbent state lawmakers who don't agree to use their 10th Amendment powers to help eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues.
Insights welcome.
The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big, alleged election-stealing, Democratic Party-pirated federal and state governments that manufacture crises to oppress everybody under their boots...
Consider that all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.
Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.
Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16&17A).
In fact, I challenge the states to ram the repeal amendment for 16&17A through the ratification process faster than Nancy Pelosi irresponsibly rammed unconstitutional Obamacare through the House. /semi-sarc
Again, insights welcome.
To: lowbridge
"amnesty for millions of illegal aliens"Shout this from the rooftops...Americans are sick of democrats illegally importing voters.
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posted on
12/08/2021 12:02:24 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Black thugs loot Walgreens:"Oh well" Loot Louis Vuitton & white liberal 'elites' scream to hell..'.)
To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan
It’s a bicycle that runs on coal.
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posted on
12/08/2021 12:05:46 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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