BLACKWELL: Republicans Will Own Inflation from Infrastructure TrapKen Blackwell 8 Aug 2021
Seventeen Senate Republicans seem determined to save President Joe Biden from his disastrous policies by backing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) infrastructure bill, reducing the GOP’s ability to go after the inflation caused by Democrats’ runaway spending when it hits everyday Americans’ weekly budgets, as it is sure to do.
Biden’s poll numbers are in a freefall. He has no natural constituency, unlike Barack Obama among Democrats and Donald Trump among Republicans. So when Biden can’t deliver results, his numbers collapse — now under 50 percent in some polls.
This is because bad policy is usually bad politics. Biden’s tax-and-spend policies have not produced economic benefits, and millions of Americans who voted for Biden last year are seeing it — and beginning to regret their vote.
What’s more, inflation is now rearing its ugly head on a scale not seen for decades. And polls show that Americans are increasingly understanding that massive government spending fuels inflation — which is a cruel tax on senior citizens, racial minorities, and low-income Americans, because it increases the cost they pay every day at the gas pump and the grocery store by eroding the purchasing power of their dollars.
You would think that in that environment, Biden’s far-left party’s socialist philosophy that taxing and spending are the solution to our every problem — versus actually being the root of our problem — would doom their prospects to ram through trillion-dollar spending in an evenly divided Congress. But you’d be wrong.
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