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Joe Biden's Bid to Remake America
Townhall.com ^ | April 2, 2021 | Pat Buchana

Posted on 04/02/2021 5:57:20 AM PDT by Kaslin

If Joe Biden's American Jobs Program, outlined in Pittsburgh, is enacted, then the federal government will take a great leap forward toward irreversible control of the destiny of the Republic.

To finance this leap, to subsidize this giant stride toward socialism, U.S. corporations are to be forced to turn over to the government a far larger slice of their earnings. The corporate tax rate is to be raised from 21 to 28 percent. And that is only the first of the new or added taxes to come -- on incomes, capital gains and estates.

The bait to lure Republicans into embracing this $2.3 trillion in Great Society II and Green New Deal spending is the modest fraction to be allocated to infrastructure -- airports, bridges, roads, ports, public transit.

Most of the rest is to be used to grow social programs and launch new ones. Biden plans to lead the nation into a new "forever war," an endless war on climate change. Meanwhile, the Chinese pump ever more carbon into the atmosphere, as Americans sacrifice to take it out.

Make no mistake. "Sleepy Joe" is determined to emulate, not Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, but FDR and LBJ, and to be remembered as a president who raised federal power to new heights.

The significance of what Biden has already done, with his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, cannot be denied.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit with hurricane force in March 2020, the U.S. was looking at yearly trillion-dollar deficits. Then, in that final year of the Trump presidency, came a massive surge in federal spending of some $4 trillion.

If Joe Biden's American Jobs Program, outlined in Pittsburgh, is enacted, then the federal government will take a great leap forward toward irreversible control of the destiny of the Republic.

To finance this leap, to subsidize this giant stride toward socialism, U.S. corporations are to be forced to turn over to the government a far larger slice of their earnings. The corporate tax rate is to be raised from 21 to 28 percent. And that is only the first of the new or added taxes to come -- on incomes, capital gains and estates.

The bait to lure Republicans into embracing this $2.3 trillion in Great Society II and Green New Deal spending is the modest fraction to be allocated to infrastructure -- airports, bridges, roads, ports, public transit.

Most of the rest is to be used to grow social programs and launch new ones. Biden plans to lead the nation into a new "forever war," an endless war on climate change. Meanwhile, the Chinese pump ever more carbon into the atmosphere, as Americans sacrifice to take it out.

Make no mistake. "Sleepy Joe" is determined to emulate, not Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, but FDR and LBJ, and to be remembered as a president who raised federal power to new heights.

The significance of what Biden has already done, with his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, cannot be denied.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit with hurricane force in March 2020, the U.S. was looking at yearly trillion-dollar deficits. Then, in that final year of the Trump presidency, came a massive surge in federal spending of some $4 trillion.

But when the Depression and war ended, Eisenhower Republicans made no effort to repeal FDR's New Deal. And when Barry Goldwater was nominated in 1964 and went down to crushing defeat, LBJ, who cut his teeth in the New Deal, used his massive majorities on the Hill to launch his Great Society, programming new spending far into the future.

When Ronald Reagan came to power on a promise to restrain the federal government, he enlisted the private sector, with his tax cuts, to be the locomotive of progress. But even Reagan failed, by his own admission, to restrain the deficits.

The financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 brought us our first trillion-dollar deficit. And while Trump unleashed the private sector with his tax cuts -- unemployment was at record lows across the board on March 1, 2020 -- the pandemic and the economic crisis it engendered brought about a bipartisan clamor for government to resolve the crises.

So, where are we?

There appears to be no historical evidence that once a Western democracy expands central power and control of the nation's resources that it ever willingly gives up those gains.

Yesterday's gone. Yet, Biden's remaking of America must be resisted. As was said at Waterloo, "The Guard dies but does not surrender!"


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanjobsprogram; americanrescueplan; joebiden
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1 posted on 04/02/2021 5:57:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
This wind bag ignored CARD CHECK in that commie disaster .
Forcing Right to Work States to unionize .

This piece was phoned .

The GOP should be screaming this every minute .

The GOPE is dead horse .

2 posted on 04/02/2021 6:02:49 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC GlobalistDelta )
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To: Kaslin

Almost like organized crime.


3 posted on 04/02/2021 6:03:42 AM PDT by FreedBird (T)
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To: Kaslin

Many companies will go elsewhere and take their jobs with them.

No more Coke for me nor fly Delta


4 posted on 04/02/2021 6:04:21 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God")
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To: Kaslin

The time has come to get really rude with these Democrat/Socialist/Globalists.


5 posted on 04/02/2021 6:06:20 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Kaslin

It’s not Joe Biden doing this. No more than it was Aunt Jemima making the pancake mix.


6 posted on 04/02/2021 6:07:17 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: ncalburt

7 posted on 04/02/2021 6:08:56 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: P.O.E.

To whoever is doing this...we don’t want it, can’t afford it, & resent anyone trying to force this on U.S. citizens. Take this phoney baloney & get out of here!


8 posted on 04/02/2021 6:12:25 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Kaslin

In less than 100 days, Joe’s pissed away over 50,000 jobs. He seems bound and determined to manifest Obama’s statement: “America’s best days are behind her.” Joe: Take yours and Hunter’s ill-gotten funds and disappear while you still have some semblance of where you are and what you’re doing.


9 posted on 04/02/2021 6:12:47 AM PDT by econjack
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To: econjack
In less than 100 days in office, Joe’s pissed away over 50,000 jobs....with one stroke of his personalized E/O pens.


10 posted on 04/02/2021 6:32:40 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Kaslin
"Joe Biden's Bid to RemakeDestroy America"

There. Fixed it.

11 posted on 04/02/2021 6:35:59 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: econjack
OBAMA'S (gag) THIRD TERM---alleged president biden, seems bound and determined
to manifest one of Obama’s more bodacious statements: “America’s best days are behind her.”

Memo to Joe: Take yours, Hunter’s and the Biden Crime Family's ill-gotten global gains and get out of our sight.......

12 posted on 04/02/2021 6:36:56 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: ncalburt

It’s just a return to the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) that has been bipartisan policy for 30 years with a brief 4 year interruption.


13 posted on 04/02/2021 6:36:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

As a life long accounting person, the first thing I would advise a company would be to CUT PAYROLL.

Calculate how much more money a 7% increase on Federal Income taxes would be based upon 2019 company records-—2020 is too screwed up-—and remove enough employees to pay those extra taxes Biden wants.


14 posted on 04/02/2021 7:05:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: ridesthemiles

Invest in robot manufacturing companies. Do it now!


15 posted on 04/02/2021 8:00:00 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: stockpirate

Elsewhere ...

The company I work for would do so in a heartbeat. They’ve already sent several enterprises to Mexico.


16 posted on 04/02/2021 8:20:39 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: Liz

Obama spend 8 years doing everything he could to harm every aspect of this Country.

Now he is in charge again, but he gets to be kept hidden away while using biden as his proxy.

We are going to have a very rough ride for the near term and if HR-1 becomes law, we will have a rough ride for generations.


17 posted on 04/02/2021 8:25:40 AM PDT by Texas resident (Dimrats=CPUSA)
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To: Texas resident

Amen.


18 posted on 04/02/2021 8:27:25 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Kaslin

Biden & Co. = China 1948


19 posted on 04/02/2021 8:36:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Travis McGee

It is reminiscent of the Chinese demographic flooding of Tibet which has been described as a facet of cultural genocide.

China is carrying out systematic annihilation of the cultural heritage of Tibet with the destruction of Tibetan Buddhism and religious traditions, education system, social breakdowns, lawlessness, communal disharmony, uncontrolled greed and a high growth in sex trade and alcoholism, according to a report.

The influx of Chinese migrant workers, facilitated by the new railway line and an administration in favour of the migrants, are reducing the Tibetans to an increasingly disenfranchised minority in their own land,” he said.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/world/china-carrying-out-cultural-genocide-of-tibet-report/article9908966.ece


20 posted on 04/02/2021 6:45:44 PM PDT by TwilightDog (("The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"--Oscar Wilde))
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