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- Aug 4, 2015
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- Perpetuates labor shortage: Continues welfare benefits without work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents at a time where there are 10.1 million job openingsâmore openings than there are people looking for work.
- Commissions a climate police: Democrats stuffed $8 billion into the bill to commission a cabal of federally funded climate police called the Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) who will conduct progressive activism on taxpayersâ dime (pages 8, 21, and 926).
- Pushes Green New Deal in our public schools: Requires funding for school construction be used largely on enrollment diversity and Green New Deal agenda items (page 55).
- Pushes Green New Deal in our universities: Democrats include a $10 billion âenvironmental justiceâ higher education slush fund
- Forces faith-based child care providers out: The bill blocks the ability of many faith-based providers from participating in the childcare system and will lead to many of their closures (page 280).
- Hurts small and in-home daycares: Requires pre-K staff to have a college degree. (page 303)
- Includes new incentives for illegal immigration: Illegal immigrants will be eligible to take advantage of Democratsâ new âfreeâ college entitlement (page 92) as well be eligible for additional student aid (page 147) and the enhanced child tax credit (page 1,946).
- Includes legislative hull for Bidenâs vaccine mandate: Increases OSHA penalties on businesses that fail to implement the mandate up to $700,000 per violation and includes $2.6 billion in funding for the Department of Labor to increase enforcement of these penalties (page 168).
- Gives unions near-total control: The bill includes insane prohibitions that would bind employersâ hands in union disputes and dangerously tilt the balance of power, subjecting employers to penalties that exempt union bosses and officials⌠among other things this bill would prevent employers from permanently replacing striking workers (page 175). It coerces businesses to meet union boss demands by increasing Fair Labor Standards Act penalties by an astronomical 900% (page 168).
- Makes unions bigger and more powerful
- Pushes Democratsâ wasteful and confusing school lunch agenda: $643 million f
- Furthers radical abortion agenda: Does not include the Hyde amendment and would mandate taxpayers pay for abortions (page 198) & (page 336).
- Drives up costs on Americansâ utility bills: could cost the American economy up to $9.1 billion and cost 90,000 Americans their jobs (page 368).
- Includes dangerous & deadly green energy mandate: Effectively forces Americans to get 40% of their energy from wind, solar and other unreliable forms of energy within 8 years (page 392). Reliance on these energy sources has proven deadly.
- Includes kickbacks for the Leftâs green energy special interest network: $5 billion for âenvironmental and climate justice block grantsâ
- Gives wealthy Americans tax credits: $222 billion in âgreen energyâ tax credits
- Furthers Democratsâ social justice agenda: Includes âequityâ initiatives throughout the bill
- Grants amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants: House Democrats have included in their reconciliation bill a plan to grant amnesty to around 8 million illegal immigrants at a cost of around $100 billion over ten years
- Opens border even wider: The bill would waive many grounds for immigration inadmissibility, including infection or lack of vaccination status , etc...
- Increases visa limit: At least 226,000 family-preference visas each year (page 905).
- Grants fast-tracked green cards for those seeking middle-class careers in America:
- Includes pork for Nancy Pelosi: $200 million is earmarked for the Presidio Trust in Speaker Pelosiâs congressional district (page 933).
- Increases energy dependence on OPEC, Russia and China:
- Exacerbates the chip shortage: The bill would mandate the conversion of the entire federal vehicle fleet from internal combustion engines to electric engines at a time when there is a global microchip shortage and crippled supply chains (page 1,043).
- Democratsâ feckless China bill is included: Concepts from the insanely weak Endless Frontier Act included, including $11 billion in research funding that will likely result in American intellectual property going to China
- Chases green energy pipe dreams: $264 million to the EPA to conduct research with left-wing environmental justice groups on how to transition away from fossil fuels
- Fixes âracistâ roads and bridges: Adds a nearly $4 billion slush fund
- Punishes red states for failing to adopt Green New Deal provisions:
- Includes new massive, bankrupting entitlement:
- Advances a totalitarian and paternalistic view of the federal government: I
- Further detaches individuals from employment and more reliant on government handouts: The bill spends $835 billion on welfare through manipulating the tax code
- Tax benefits for the top 1%:
- Tax credit for wealthy donors who give to woke universities:
- Expands worst parts of Obamacare: Obamacareâs job-killing employer mandate will become more severe by adjusting the definition of âaffordable coverageâ to mean coverage that costs no more than 8.5 percent of income rather than current lawâs 9.5 percent of income (page 2041).
- Increases taxes on Americans at every income level: $2 trillion in tax hikes will fall on those making under $400,000 per year
- Lowers wages for working families: The corporate tax rate will increase by 5.5%, meaning American companies will face one of the highest tax burdens in the world.
- Penalizes marriage: The bill would permanently double the EITCâs marriage penalty on childless worker benefits (page 2036).
- Imposes crushing taxes on small business: Guts the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act small business deductions that reduced pass-through entity taxes to keep them comparable to taxes imposed on corporations (page 2235) as well as hammer small businesses that file as individual tax earners with the 39.6% rate (page 2221) and Obamacareâs 3.8% tax on net investment income.
- Crushes family businesses and farms: The bill would impose a 25% capital gains rate (page 2226) and makes alterations to the Death Tax including cutting the Death Tax exemption in half (page 2240).
- Violates Americansâ financial privacy: $80 billion slush fund to hire an 87,000-IRS-agent army to carry out the Biden administrationâs plan to review every account above a $600 balance or with more than $600 of transactions in a year. (page 2283).
- Increases out of pocket costs for those who rely on prescription drugs:
- Imports policies from countries with socialized medicine: The bill includes healthcare policies imported from systems in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdomâall countries that have government-run healthcare systems (page 2349).
No one is telling you what's in it, especially Democrats or 'Walk-Away Joe'. Here ya go - you don;t have to read it yourself, but some of these above have the actual page numbers.
42 Reconciliation Policies to Wreck America
TO: Republican Study Committee members FROM: Chairman Jim Banks DATE: October 12, 2021 RE: Reconciliation Roundup RECONCILIATION ROUNDUP: Policies to Wreck America TOPLINE: We as congressional Republicans have an urgent duty to tell the truth about whatâs REALLY in the Democratsâ $3.5T big...
