Just like all Democrat ideas it will do the opposite of what they claim. It also raises taxes on the poor and middle class. Another Biden promise broken.
This economist agrees with the Joint Committee on Taxation that this bull is a sham.
Inflation Reduction Act is 'deceptive marketing,' will hurt struggling Americans, economist says
The Inflation Reduction Act will drive prices even higher, economist says
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin's reconciliation bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, is deceptively named since it will actually exacerbate Americans' pain from inflation while simultaneously raising taxes, an economist told Fox News.
"The greatest example of deceptive marketing today is the name that the Democrats have chosen for this piece of legislation," a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, EJ Antoni, told Fox News. "It does absolutely nothing to address the problem of inflation."
The Inflation Reduction Act, which Manchin and Schumer announced Wednesday, is a slimmed down version of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act with a $433 billion price tag, most of which will be spent on climate provisions. The Committee on Taxation estimates that it will raise $739 billion through a variety of measures, including a minimum tax rate on large corporations and enhanced IRS enforcement.
"It does nothing to address the problem of inflation and instead only exacerbates the existing high prices and will drive prices even higher," Antoni told Fox News. "It's just adding insult to injury."
"Inflation is fundamentally too much money relative to the amount of goods and services in the economy," Antoni told Fox News. "So, if you're just going to raise taxes, all you've done at that point is transfer money from one person to another, the taxpayer to the government."
But you haven't actually changed the amount of goods and services relative to the amount of money in the economy," he continued. "So it does nothing to fight inflation."
Antoni also said the higher taxes will impact consumers.
There will be taxes on energy that will be passed through to the consumer at all different levels, not only in the purchase of energy itself, but because energy affects everything we do and everything we buy," Antoni said. "Those prices will trickle down into everything else, just as we've seen higher prices for diesel and gasoline over the last 18 months trickle down everywhere else into consumers purchases."
An economist said the Inflation Reduction Act is an example of deceptive marketing and will exacerbate the pain felt by Americans struggling with inflation.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought House members back to Washington on Friday to pass the Democrat Majority’s latest inflation expansion bill. According to economists, this so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” will do nothing to relieve the pressure on family budgets caused by massive government spending in Washington.
The economic harm of higher taxes and increased energy costs contained in this bill will especially harm lower and middle-income families. At the same time, the bill subsidizes alternative energy companies with a Green New Deal slush fund, expands Obamacare while enriching insurance companies, and restricts the development of new prescription drugs.
Worse yet, the bill will provide $80 billion to double the size of the IRS, permitting a new army of IRS agents to conduct an additional 1.2 million audits of hardworking taxpayers. While Speaker Pelosi refused to allow any efforts to amend the bill, Democrats in the Senate unanimously rejected two amendments to protect average Americans from this effort. One amendment would have prohibited anyone making less than $400,000 a year from being subjected to new audits. The second amendment would have prevented hiring any new IRS agents until existing IRS employees were finally back to work in-person.
I spoke on the House floor prior to the vote and addressed how it is disastrous Democrat policies that are to blame for the record high inflation. Yet, the radical left’s “solution” will ONLY add gasoline to the fire as they claim to believe that spending another trillion dollars will solve their self-created inflation crisis.