Great job by our President in fighting inflation
The deal announced last week by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will “nudge the economy and inflation in the right direction” and “meaningfully” addre…
thehill.com
The deal, which would raise $739 billion in new revenue, spend $369 on an energy security and climate investments, and pay down more than $300 billion in debt, is scheduled to come to the Senate floor this week, pending approval by the Senate parliamentarian.
No wonder Republicans oppose it
Holy mackerel. Did you even *read* the article you are citing? And you still are saying this is a good thing?
Let's review the contents of the article line by line:
But Moody’s predicts the Inflation Reduction Act “will modestly reduce inflation over the 10-year budget horizon.”
Stop right there. The new tax "will modestly reduce inflation over the
10-year budget horizon"? 10 years. TEN YEARS? We are facing historic inflation that cropped up over just the last TWO years of mis-management, and you think a 10-year plan that will have modest affect is ok? Anything could happen over the next ten years.
The financial services company predicts the consumer price inflation index will be 0.33 percent lower by the fourth quarter of 2031 because of the bill.
“This translates into a reduction in CPI inflation of 3.3 basis points per annum on average over that period,” it said, projecting the legislation will have a “marginal” impact on inflation in the middle of the next decade but then become “more meaningful later in the decade.”
Again, we're talking about cpi that is 9.x points higher than recent years, and growing, but you think a 9 or 10-year plan is a good goal? Are you suicidal?
Moody’s says the legislation will curb inflation in several ways.
It predicts that increasing taxes on corporations will result in “slower growth,” though the impact on growth is likely to be small.
Whoa back. Now you're trying to say SLOWING GROWTH is a good idea after two consecutive quarters of negative growth? Are you even awake?
It predicts a three-year extension of expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies, which will be “important to quickly reducing inflation” by keeping health care costs in check.
And it projects that empowering Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices will begin to have more impact on general inflation in the middle of the next decade.
Fine, but both of these are false predictions: there is nothing in the plan that will guarantee this result. Besides, these are special interest concerns. It will only benefit government employees and dependants.
Moody’s believes the energy provisions in the package “could reduce the typical American household’s spending on energy by an estimated more than $300 per year in today’s dollars.”
"Could" reduce spending on energy? Could have would have, but what it really means is that the typical American household will go cold for a few months a year because they won't be able to afford to keep the heat on, after the corporations being excessively taxed have to lay off their marginal workers to afford the extra taxes.
“The Inflation Reduction Act is much smaller in scale and scope than the original Build Back Better agenda from which it comes. Regardless, it will have a material beneficial economic impact,” Moody’s concluded.
Non-sense based on false and erroneous claims.
The firm said reducing future budget deficits would alleviate a problem that “seems sure to soon become a more pressing economic problem” because of the impact that unsustainable debt levels could have on interest rates in the future.
Finally, something truthful: unsustainable budget deficits being created by the idiots in Washington D.C. "seems sure to soon become a more pressing economic problem".
Right away, we know from experience, the increased taxes collected from corporations will cause a downward spiral in both GDP and in tax revenue over the course of the
scam plan.