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https://www.city-journal.org/inflation-reduction-act-needless-health-care-provisions

The House of Representatives will soon take up the inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act. The IRA, which cleared the Senate by the barest of margins—51 to 50—through the reconciliation process, will do little to control inflation. More importantly, its health-care provisions will harm Americans in order to fund an expansion of government-run health care that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, leads to inflation, and provides inferior care.

The highly regarded Penn–Wharton Budget Model estimated that the impact of the IRA on inflation over the next ten years would be “statistically indistinguishable from zero.” Inflation might rise slightly in the first few years and decline slightly thereafter. The CBO concurred, finding that the bill would have “negligible effect” on inflation.

The anti-inflationary effect is likely even lower since both assessments were made before the Senate parliamentarian knocked out a provision that purportedly would have saved around $40 billion. Moreover, almost half of the IRA’s projected budgetary savings ($122 billion) results from a budgetary gimmick—repeal of a Trump-era drug-rebate rule that was challenged in court, has been delayed multiple times, has never had any money spent on it, and would likely never have gone into effect. Even Senator Bernie Sanders, before voting yes, labelled the IRA “the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.”

The deception doesn’t end with the bill’s title. Despite President Biden’s assurance that no American earning less than $400,000 would pay “a single penny” in additional taxes, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation found that the IRA would raise taxes on Americans in every income bracket and that people earning less than $400,000 would bear most of the increase. In fact, the IRA appropriates $80 billion for the IRS—more than six times the agency’s annual budget—to boost enforcement and collections. The bill’s authors are counting on tens of thousands of additional tax collectors to find the money to finance the IRA’s increased spending. Their targets will not be limited to Sanders’s “millionaires and billionaires.” They don’t have enough money. Inevitably, working- and middle-class people along with small businesses and sole proprietors will be targeted—that’s where the money is.

https://issuesinsights.com/2022/08/12/defund-the-fbi/

No, that headline’s not a joke. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, once so popular it had its own TV show solely dedicated to its heroics, has become a hyper-politicized, jackbooted bully that no longer serves the American people or the U.S. Constitution, which its employees are sworn to protect. It has become, instead, the intelligence arm and domestic enforcer of the far left.

Did we say defund? Yes. But we don’t mean simply to cut its funding, as leftists have disastrously proposed for police forces across the country. We mean tear down the entire rotting edifice of the FBI and replacing it with a new agency that respects the Constitution and holds itself accountable to all Americans, not just the woke far left.

The raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound may be the breaking point, but it’s only the latest FBI outrage. In recent years, under Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, the Bureau has acted overtly to aid one political party over the other, demonizing those who oppose the Democrats’ “woke,” “progressive” agenda for America.

To be sure, this has been going on for some time now, starting with the FBI’s feeble investigation of Hillary Clinton’s home-based server, which intelligence sources say was almost certainly hacked by the Russians, the Chinese, or both. It was a clear violation of the law, exposing America’s secrets to our worst enemies.

And the FBI did nothing.

https://news.yahoo.com/irs-deletes-job-posting-seeking-212152157.html

The IRS deleted a job posting Wednesday seeking a Special Agent “willing to use deadly force” for its law enforcement division, Criminal Investigation (CI). The deletion came amid renewed scrutiny of the IRS in response to a Democrat-backed spending bill that would double the size of the agency.

“As a Special Agent you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes,” the job advertisement read.

“No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation. Because of the expertise required to conduct these complex financial investigations, IRS Special Agents are considered the premier financial investigators for the Federal government,” the job posting continued.

The “Major Duties” listed in the job description included “a level of fitness necessary to effectively respond to life-threatening situations on the job,” and being “willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments.”

It also included a requirement of carrying “a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sanctification-george-soros-district-attorneys-james-kirchick

How the left stopped worrying about Soros the billionaire and learned to love Soros ‘the Jew’.

Two weeks ago, George Soros took to the op-ed pages of the largest paid circulation newspaper in the United States to explain why he has spent tens of millions of dollars backing progressive district attorney candidates across the country. “Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime,” the billionaire philanthropist began in a piece for The Wall Street Journal titled, “Why I Support Reform Prosecutors.” Decrying the “demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the debate and obscure the issues,” Soros elucidated his reasons for championing prosecutors who support, among other things, abolishing cash bail, reducing prison time for violent offenders, and declining to prosecute whole categories of crime altogether.

The scope of Soros’ efforts has been extensive. Through a combination of direct contributions to candidates, subventions to political action committees, and funding of other third party groups via his Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent upwards of $40 million over the past decade helping to elect some 75 prosecutors in metropolitan areas ranging from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, Manhattan to St. Louis. His pursuit of this agenda has been met with no small amount of controversy, and in some cases active resistance. In San Francisco, the Soros-backed District Attorney Chesa Boudin lost a recall vote earlier this year following a disastrous tenure marked by sharp increases in both violent and petty crime rates. George Gascon, a Soros-backed prosecutor in Los Angeles, will also face a recall. It was no doubt in response to the backlash his public efforts have caused that Soros decided, not unreasonably, to defend his political interventions. “I have done it transparently,” he wrote in the Journal of his massive outlays, “and I have no intention of stopping.”