Joe Biden Wants To Spend How Much? On What Now?
Plus: What is the libertarian stake in the culture war over school curriculums?
In the latest Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie discuss President Joe Biden's newly proposed budget and wealth tax.
1:29: Biden's budget proposal.
7:31: Biden wants a wealth tax.
36:36: Weekly listener question: "With respect to the school curriculum debates, I can easily imagine various tradcons responding to Nick's take ('Let schools teach what they want') in the following manner: 'Teacher schools in America are, in effect, progressive indoctrination camps. So when you have a libertarian approach to curriculum, the de facto result is all these progressive teachers indoctrinating your kids with warmed-over Marxism. This is a perfect example of libertarianism being tantamount to surrender in the culture war. Putatively neutral policies, in fact, tilt heavily leftward.' Given that some members of the panel have first-hand experience with their kids imbibing wokeism at their public schools, what say you to this critique?"
This week's links:
- "Biden Is Clueless About Inflation," by Nick Gillespie and Regan Taylor
- "Biden's Economy Is Extraordinary. But Inflation Is Still The Achilles' Heel Of Democrats" by Jennifer Rubin
- Joe Biden's Twitter
- "How Biden's Agenda Is Causing Inflation" by Nick Gillespie
- "Want To Stop School Book Battles? Give Parents Real Choice in Education" by Nick Gillespie
- "The 19 Percent Solution" by Nick Gillespie and Veronique De Rugy
- "Joe Manchin on Biden's Wealth Tax: 'You Can't Tax Something That's Not Earned.'" by Peter Suderman
- "Biden's Desperate Wealth Tax Flip-Flop" by Peter Suderman
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“Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.”
Please can the next person to submit a reader question put the corret pronunciation of your name is “ENB make me a sandwich”?
E. G. Name: John smith
Pronounced:ENB make me a sandwhich
Joe Biden Wants To Spend How Much?
All of your lunch money.
On What Now?
Shower gel an 8 year old girl would find enticing.
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Broken.
Fuck Joe Biden
Fuck Joe Biden.
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Hey Sarcasmic and Mike. You and Matt Welch have a similar interest.
What are we consuming this week?
Nick Gillespie – The Dropout
Katherine Mangu-Ward – Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Episode 68- (BLITZ) Human Resources
Peter Suderman – Morbius
Matt Welch – Mean Girls
So why are you here mopping up the dribble so much?
The condom slipped? Or the hole in your Covid mask was cut a little tight Queenie.
I should stop saying that. Lindsay Lohan has infinitely more class than those the insult trolls. I bet they listen to Enya.
No, no Enya.
I bet their entire album collections are comprised by bands named after geographical locations. In alphabetical order.
Forgot to switch to your sock again sarc.
Haha. You fucked up and forgot to switch.
He’s probably drunk 24/7 right now. Got his welfare check in the first.
Alabama
America
Berlin
Boston
Chicago
Nazareth
Not Mountain
Othern’
The River Styx
Not a very large collection but it will do. 🙂
dang it
Can’t be worse than Aerosmith. Starting with the A’s…..
Ideas!
If only candidates had campaign websites reason editors could go to to understand their goals.
Every single one of them should be reminded how they voted in 2020.
The Farmers For Trump are mad tonight (well, replace that with just mad)! How dare the writers here at Reason not recognize how doubleplus good Donald is for us farmer-oops, I mean libertarians! Years later and they’re still rubbing their assholes and bitching…The funny thing is they’re doing this in the literal front yard of the people they’re bitching about. Shoo farmers, shoo! There are entire websites for people with your cultural and political tastes*, no need to hang around complaining all the time!
*Farmer’s Only perhaps?
Go away, pedophile.
You’re aptly named, aren’t you lil’ guy?
But shockingly accurate and full of good advice for you.
Are most CP fanatics incapable of shame shrike?
One thing I actually and fully agree on is that Biden is terrible on spending. Now, some of this is a function of not having a filibuster-proof majority and so all the pretty ponies he promised progressives to get elected can only really be addressed via spending bills. But the fact that he really, really, really doesn’t care about any ramifications of promising his various bases such ponies via taxpayer monies just shows what a terrible empty suit he is/has been.
But the fact that he really, really, really doesn’t care about any ramifications of promising his various bases such ponies via taxpayer monies just shows what a terrible empty suit he is/has been.
I’m scratching my head trying to figure out how that makes him different from any other politician.
I’d say it has to do with the party surrounding him thinking spending is more widely a solution to any perceived problem. I mean, can you think of any objection to spending by the Democrats? I totally agree the Republicans LOVE spending for their constituencies, and that in some sense the only difference is that they seem to only ask ‘hmm, does this group have any political clout, no, well THEN I’m against spending to help them!’ But they do, in this area, at least have some ideological lip service commitments about saying ‘no.’ The Dems don’t have any that I see.
I’d say that deficit spending lets politicians promise all kinds of goodies without having to pay for them. Goodies get votes. Nobody cares about debt. That’s somebody else’s problem.
The problem is the system. Not who is in charge.
^THIS…. You’re exactly right….
When the USA decided the Constitution “The Peoples” law over their government was no longer important. That government switched from the USA to a Nazi-Regime.
That “system” is definitely what is broke.
Maybe the difference is the Republicans spend in a way that frees up existing resources to grow whereas the Dems feel more a home gathering the resources from as many places as they can and spreading them out to the Billy Idol crowd, who with a Rebel yet want more, more, more.
How does that work?
As a libertarian I’ll concede that government can and should spend money on the public good, but with “public” meaning “everyone” not individual people. A warship, a bridge, or a dam is spending on the public.
Writing checks to individual people is not.
So if you mean Republicans spend more on the former and less on the latter in comparison to Democrats, I’d say sure. But it’s like arguing over which smells worse: cat shit or dog shit.
Cats will win the shit argument every time.
San Francisco style spending is catshit. You never get the smell out and the cat keeps finding more clandestine places to take a crap, piss or spooge on your stuff. It cost a lot and you get little in return.
Dogshit you usually step in outside and can wash it off with the hose before you drag it into your house.
When a dog takes a crap it’s a landmine. Cats crap in the box, in the potted plant, in the herb garden, etc, but not somewhere where you’re gonna step in it. They don’t depend upon their owners to clean up after them. Sure it’s not the dog’s fault that the bitch owner lets it shit in front of your door every morning while she’s doing her power walk and just leaves it there, but it’s still a landmine.
Dog shit is definitely worse.
Your points are all valid, but the argument is which smells worse. Cats are the clear winners.
Hey, did anyone play in a sandbox as a child? Surprise!
San Francisco??? Dude, that’s NOT cat shit and it’s NOT dog shit! RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!!!
Are you really this ignorant sarc?
Yes, the GOP spends, but their last spending bill of 760B was largely already approved spending being repurposed. They actually go and find unspent funds instead of just adding tinder to a raging fire like the left. But you are incapable of actual thought or analysis.
“As a libertarian I’ll concede that government can and should spend money on the public good”
It humorous you don’t see the contradiction in that statement….
It’s also humorous you don’t see that is UN-Constitutional, as in UN-American as in Nazism (syn; National Socialism).
Unless of course you meant a strong national defense to invasion (hut hum; border security) as ‘public good’… But I’m pretty sure no one takes that approach anymore with [WE] mobs Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie for the ‘public good’ flagships.
I can’t think of a musical reference. Shit. Maybe Dead Milkmen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3AO8hUwQpE
The 80s rocker references are off the charts today. Something must be done. A limit perhaps.
It doesn’t. And, surprisingly to few, makes him no better than Trump.
Oops.
Question:. Since Biden is spending LESS than Trump did in his final year how is worldwide inflation his fault?
Pronounced PA-lins Butt Plug. Longtime subscriber.
Cite?
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_spending_chart
Funny how you never take into count where those veto proof spending bills originated. But then, you’re a lying shitweasel pedophile.
It’s amazing how Dem presidents who have a Republican House get all the credit for reducing spending and Rep presidents who have a Democrat house get all the blame for the increased spending.
If shrike wasn’t a dishonest Dem sucking piece of shit, he’d stop posting here and turn himself in for his crimes.
Of course both Biden and Trump are terrible on spending. But only one of them was POTUS when spending went from roughly $4.1 trillion (2016-17) to over $6 trillion by Insurrection Day.
The rate of increase under the King of Debt was unreal.
In perspective Obama went from $3.2 trillion to $4.1 trillion in EIGHT FUCKING YEARS including entitlements.
Trump’s four year economic record is easily worst since Hoover both in (lack of) GDP growth and increase in government.
Some “libertarian”. Only a cultist would say that.
Still pretending that wasn’t Pelosi and Schumer, huh?
Oops, what’s this Pluggo?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-readies-relief-package-for-restaurants-other-industries/ar-AAVLzjh
Are you going to blame this one on that darn Trump too?
McConnell was Senate Leader during Trump’s term, you liar.
Trump, McConnell, and Pelosi – the Big Government trio but with the GOP in power and able to stop anything but didn’t want to.
You must think we have the memory length of goldfish.
Every remembers Schumer fighting McConnell over every penny and teaming up with Pelosi to call him a mean skinflint for opposing Pelosi’s bill.
You’ll do better peddling your phony narrative a decade from now instead of just 15 short months.
I think you are so deep into the Trump Cult you want to blame the GOP’s runaway 2017-2021 spending on the party out of power.
“u R a CuLT!”
That’s not an answer or proof of your assertions, Shrike.
It’s all he’s got. That and child rape videos.
But that measures in the petabytes!
In his case it’s measured in pedobytes.
You’re such a lazy, lying, pedo scumbag. A total bitch punk.
It would suck if the guy that came after him used that 6 trillion as a baseline for his next budget proposals.
Oopsie.
Turn yourself in for your crimes against children.
Because Biden is the president right now.
Do you find context lacking whataboutism your best go-to debate tactic?
Longtime child pornographers support Biden. Hang yourself on a bungie cord.
LIE, “Since Biden is spending LESS than Trump”
1) The 2023 budget isn’t closed; you have no idea how much is spent.
2) The LAST-ONLY spending of Trumps administration you use is $2T above that budgeted…
3) The Massive OVER-BUDGET bills on Trumps last administration was PITCHED and democratically THWARTED by Democrats.
Conclusion) UR a B.S. LIAR….
The Adult Diapers are back in the room.
We should have been fracking the fuck out of natural gas for the last 12 months pushing the price down to Pennie’s if we wanted to put the hurt on Russia.
pennies
The question is, “Should I have bought a whole fuck ton of rubles when they were cheap?” and the answer would appear to be yes.
Oh well.
The EU is demanding that Russia stick to contracts, and accept dollars or euros.
LOL
I wonder what contracts with banks and harbors weren’t adhered to…
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-still-flows-russia-europe-buyers-navigate-putins-rouble-order-2022-04-01/
Yeah, “You first” seems a likely response to that particular tack.
I am humored to see that conservatives have a new Fake Scandal to replace the idiotic Durham fake scandal.
HUNTER BIDENS LAPTOP! BLOOP! DERP! DIRTY PICTURES! WHORES! METH!
There is even a reference that says “big guy” and 20%.
See? That is all you need!
GUILTY!
OF what?
WE DONT NEED MORE PROOF! DERP! ARGLE BARGLE!
(Will turn to shit like Durham did)
So you’re ignoring the actual banking records showing millions from foreign countries Joe was the lead on as VP? The texts from Hunter regarding his dad taking half of his income? Their acknowledgement of shared bank accounts? The documented multiple account hopping of China funds?
You really are an idiot shrike. Please continue to pretend you’re not a leftist. LOL.
Hunter Biden was a partner in a venture capital firm, you clown. Bank records don’t mean shit.
Unless they pertain to his tax avoidance. He could be in trouble on that count. Hardly a scandal in DC though since Donnie Boy bragged about tax evasion.
Wait, you claim to not be a leftist?!
“Bank records don’t mean shit.”
That’s an interesting position to take. Unless you’re a pathological liar like shrike, then it’s as boring as all his other ridiculous lies. A normal post.
Bank records don’t mean shit.
Look at the lefturd, still trying to excuse the smoking gun right in front of him.
-jcr
Apologize to everyone here for what you have said and done. Then commit suicide.
Your BLOOPIng is good.
Your DERPing is okay.
You once again forgot to DOINK.
Much disappoint.
You may wish to look up what “being humored” means. As opposed to “I find it humorous that…”
Now kindly humor by posting the latest spiitin tabakky prices.
Humor me by
FBI found Hunter’s stash. Save your collection, pederast, and you can be next.
So, I don’t listen to podcasts, but let’s try a little Remedial Civics:
A public school in American law is not an independent entity, it is an agency of the state government. Accordingly, whatever the state government wants it to do is what the school wants to do. A school has the same right to teach what it wants as a factory has to build what it wants, which is to say, whatever the owners want.
Let’s also try a little Remedial Libertarianism:
If it’s a public school, the libertarian position is not to let it teach whatever it wants, but to abolish it.
Yes, except apparently Reason has a pedo groomer clause that overrides both how we judge issues of public schools and the overall qualifications of a Supreme Court justice nominee.
Is this what we call “journalistic whistling past the graveyard”?
Sarah Palin did it. Next!
Like all lefturds, Joe the vegetable and lifelong power-grubbing scumbag, will not be satisfied until the economy is entirely engulfed and devoured by the bureaucracy. Fuck Joe Biden.
-jcr
Bunch of idiot snobs.
Talking about Manchin not being an “Intellectual Politician”
Even if you don’t like him you have to recognize that without him stopping Biden several times, we’d be completely sunk in an inflation nightmare beyond what we can comprehend.
I’ve been in a country where the currency collapses and Americans as a whole will turn to animals, because most seem to have ZERO survival skills or willingness to suffer a little inconvenience.
Water off for days, time frames to use gas or electricity, scarcity of goods and food.
No work or proper wages to buy anything.
Americans have NO IDEA what true poverty is.
I have a funny feeling they’re about to find out if the “Commie” and Nazism doesn’t recede.
Peter Suderman is simply the best. His puns are wonderfully terrible. Also, this might be the first time I’ve heard him refer to his boss as “KMW”. It should stick.
TOO BAD JOE said nothing about the SYSTEMATIC MURDERING of #ChronicPainPatients! Good thing that no give’s a damn about the 50M Americans being tortured every day because of the profiteering of our elected leaders – they love those big pharma donations and big pharma needs guinea pigs to develop new non-narcotic pain relief – if they won’t volunteer, make them volunteer by denying them the FDA approved meds that have a history of successfully controlling their pain.
NOW THE MONEY – Nothing like manipulating the facts to scare people into thinking they are rich. “an Economic Policy Institute report from 2018 indicates that “a family in the US needs an annual income of $421,926 to be in the top 1% of earners.” And to be in the top 5 percent of earners, a family would need an annual income of about $250,000.” – Fact – the difference between the number of earners who earn between 250K -425K is a whopping 0.4% very very close to that top 1%.
Our nation needs to establish a minimum income tax wage; earn more than the minimum, you file a federal income tax return. That minimum tax wage should be based upon what pay we those to represent/work for US in DC – $174K/yr. But I think we should add another $76K for the benefit package we provide our congressional reps. thus $250K would be the minimum wage/person, meaning that 98.6% of the country would no longer be responsible for filing or paying any federal income tax.
Before people start crying about needing to have skin in the game, I would say that it is absolutely insane to utilize of 2/3rds of our revenue collecting resources to chase a mere 17% of our nation’s revenue. I wonder how many tax cheats & how much more revenue we would discover if we stopped wasting those resources chasing families for what amounts to pennies. There’s a very simple solution that would be easy to enact given almost everything is already in place. A solution that levels the playing field for our corporate & human citizens alike. Humans pay a sales tax of 1% or more for food & medicine, vital to our existence. Whereas our public corporate citizens don’t need food or medicine, we must look at what would be the equivalent “Living tax” for them.
A 1% purchase & 1% sale tax for stocks, corp bonds, options & commodities is the solution. This activity is already monitored on a daily basis by the SEC, thus it is just a matter of incorporating the IRS collection along side. Anyone who refuses to buy a stock because of a 1% purchase tax is basically a moron. And since the first $250K of income is tax free, it doesn’t matter if the stock went up or down, because there would no federal income tax until the person cashed out more than $250K (1% tax $2500).
It doesn’t matter if the market is going up or going down, our nation still gets paid. Most importantly, the nation would have a minimum of 350% more annual revenue than what we currently collect. We could lower the federal income tax rates upon the richest among us and corporations with the goal of eventually eliminating them after our current debt was eliminated – in fact, we can codify that these federal income taxes are earmarked specifically to pay down the debt.
Think about all those social programs that no one wants to pay for the we so desperately across our country. We could easily expand Medicare for anyone who wants it, expand our welfare programs w/o punishing folks for reading the rules and behaving just as the rich do, improve all aspects of our children’s education, clean our environment, and a host of others…all this for 98.6% who did not benefit like the “wealthiest 0.1 percent has tripled its share of American wealth since the late ’70s, going from holding about 7 percent of total American wealth then to about 22 percent now, the richest American households”
To sum this up: 99.9% of the country transferred 14% of THEIR American wealth directly to the 0.1% – Ask yourself, if everyone earning more than $50M/yr increased their wealth by over 200%, how much did the remaining 0.9%, earning $425K+, increase their piece of the pie at the expense of the other 99%? When you hear conservatives crying that 10% of the country pays 85% of our income taxes, remember that being in the top 90% means that earning as little as $75K/yr makes you a 10%er; only 1.7% earn more than congress’s $174K, a 0.3% difference between my $250K allowance.
The lies are obvious, when you’re saying the 8.3% earning $75K-$174K are in the same ball park regarding responsibility.
Every U.S. airline is facing the impacts of a national pilot shortage, brought on by reductions in staffing during the pandemic and a quicker than expected rebound in air travel this year.
However, Alaska has been hit worse than most.