Kamala Harris's government greed
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris wants to hike taxes by trillions of dollars, which will without a doubt crush our sputtering economy.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a better idea: lower taxes and take a machete to government spending. The former president, speaking recently at the Economics Club in New York, promised that if he wins in November, he will create a government efficiency commission to root out "fraud and improper payments" and that Elon Musk has agreed to head up the effort. Asking the smartest man on the planet to streamline our bloated, inefficient and unaccountable federal government – slated to spend $7 trillion next year – is the kind of out-of-the-box idea that helped Trump win in 2016 and could sway voters again this November.
Two-thirds of Americans think they pay too much in taxes. If they knew how much of their tax money was wasted or outright stolen, they might revolt. In 2022, some $47 billion of Medicare payments were found to be "improper," while Congress has determined that as much as half a trillion dollars of COVID relief money was likely stolen. Billions are misspent each year on community grants that end up in wealthy communities, maintaining thousands of empty buildings owned by Uncle Sam or funding duplicative and useless federal programs.
There are currently, for instance, 43 job training programs across 9 federal agencies that cost taxpayers almost $20 billion per year. One study conducted in 2022 by the Department of Labor concluded that the programs provided zero benefit to workers. Unfortunately, legislators win credit for starting up new programs; no one is applauded for shutting one down.
A watchdog group called Citizens Against Government Waste has identified 543 specific expenditures across the federal bureaucracy that could be reduced or eliminated to save taxpayers "$402.3 billion in the first year and $4 trillion over five years." There is, in short, plenty of low-hanging fruit.
Musk is all in, telling an audience recently, "If Trump wins, we do have an opportunity to do kind of a once in a lifetime deregulation & reduction in the size of the government." He added: "America is going bankrupt extremely quickly. The interest payments on the national debt just exceeded the defense budget."
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Voting against Harris and the Democrats is the best way to throttle their government greed agenda. They want to use tax money in their vote-buying schemes. Higher taxes are a threat to the economy and democracy. The US is already seeing the highest inflation in years as a result of the Biden-Harris regime's reckless spending.
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