{"id":113776,"date":"2021-01-29T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113776"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:57:41","slug":"bidens-blue-state-claw-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-blue-state-claw-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Blue State Claw Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-blue-state-claw-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113776&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1230841269-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"President Biden Signs Executive Orders On Health Care Access\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No one can accuse President Biden of easing into office. His first days have been a blizzard of executive orders, presidential memorandums, and official proclamations. He says he wants to overturn the worst policies of the previous administration, and to restore a sense of national unity and institutional integrity. What gets lost in the details of all these initiatives is Biden\u2019s partisan goal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just that the new president wants to resume the trajectory America was on when Barack Obama left office in 2017. He also wants to claw back the gains red states made over blue states during the last four years. He wants to shift federal resources to Democratic constituencies, and to save the blue states from the true cost of their misguided policies. And if red America has to pay a price in lost jobs and tax revenue, well, that\u2019s too bad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Columns<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/bidens-blue-state-claw-back\/\"><strong>Biden\u2019s Blue State Claw Back<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/bidens-day\/\"><strong>Biden\u2019s Day<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/theres-no-reason-for-biden-to-reward-iran\/\"><strong>There&#8217;s No Reason for Biden to Reward Iran<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Leave aside, for the purposes of this discussion, the relative merits of Biden\u2019s executive actions. (I disagree with almost all of them.) Focus instead on their distributional effects, not on individuals but on sectors of the economy, on regions of the country, and on the donor bases of the two parties. The image that comes to mind is of swarms of dollars changing course midflight: a mass migration of subsidies, spending, and incentives from the GOP coalition to the Democratic one.<\/p>\n<p>Start with energy. Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline at a cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-21\/keystone-xl-s-demise-prompts-tc-energy-to-slash-1-000-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,000 jobs<\/a> and diplomatic goodwill with Canada. He banned fracking on federal lands and paused oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. According to a White House fact sheet, he told federal agencies to &#8220;accelerate clean energy and transmission projects.&#8221; He is sure to bestow federal largesse on the sons of Solyndra.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative energy sector <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/industries\/indus.php?ind=e1500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overwhelmingly favors Democrats<\/a>. Its political investments have paid off. The old-style extractive industries, mainly based in GOP strongholds, will suffer. In some cases they are targeted for extinction. The knock-on effects are serious. &#8220;Wyoming state superintendent Jillian Balow notes that her state depends on some $150 million a year in oil and gas federal royalties to fund K-12 schools,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-defunds-the-states-11611790522?mod=opinion_lead_pos2\">says<\/a> the<em> Wall Street Journal <\/em>editorial board.<\/p>\n<p>Other Biden measures resumed the flow of government aid to the special interests behind his campaign. The second Catholic president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/01\/28\/biden-trump-anti-abortion-rules-463347?nname=playbook-pm&amp;nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f112-dd93-ad7f-f917d2410001&amp;nlid=964328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jumpstarted<\/a> federal funding of Planned Parenthood almost two years after President Trump cut off the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider. Biden also reversed President Trump\u2019s ban on money for &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221; that choose not to enforce federal immigration law. That decision will help boost the budgets of progressive municipalities eager to pass off the costs of illegal immigration. Biden\u2019s codification of the Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Bostock<\/em> decision, which made gender identity protected under civil rights law, and his lifting of the ban on trans soldiers is sure to please a class of donors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/industries\/indus.php?ind=J7300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essential<\/a> to Democratic Party finances.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s proposed American Rescue Plan best captures the new administration\u2019s intermingling of public policy and greasy-pole gamesmanship. Take, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/policy-politics\/what-bidens-american-rescue-plan-would-do-for-schools-and-students-in-one-chart\/2021\/01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$130 billion<\/a> that Biden wants to spend on K-12 schools. That number is on top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.future-ed.org\/what-congressional-covid-funding-means-for-k-12-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$67 billion<\/a> Congress already has committed to reopening elementary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p>The additional cash is a handout to the teachers&#8217; unions, who have opposed a return to in-person instruction at every opportunity, and who are among <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/jill-biden-hosts-virtual-event-to-honor-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden\u2019s closest allies<\/a>. Biden has adopted the unions\u2019 rhetoric, saying that schools cannot open until they have been renovated. He\u2019s wrong, of course\u2014measures such as masks, hygiene, and social distancing are enough to stop the spread, especially among the elementary schoolers who need in-person classes the most and whose transmission rates are low. But science doesn\u2019t matter. The unions must get paid.<\/p>\n<p>One year after COVID-19 appeared in America, it is more than evident that arbitrary, statewide lockdowns are a disaster for small businesses, which happen to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/political-action-committees-pacs\/c00101105\/summary\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a key part<\/a> of the Republican coalition. The states that have done the most to reopen have best weathered the economic storm. And these same states tend to be low-tax, low-minimum-wage, and have a business-friendly regulatory environment, as well as a warmer climate. The <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/job-growth-in-the-south-bucks-losses-in-rest-of-u-s-11611752792?mod=itp_wsj&amp;ru=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that the South is leading America\u2019s recovery. But, in the heavily Democratic northeast, &#8220;The recovery of jobs has lagged behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does Biden want? His solution is to make Florida and Texas more like New York and California. My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Paul H. Kupiec, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/economics\/the-disparate-impact-of-a-national-15-minimum-wage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calculates<\/a> that the nationwide $15 minimum wage contained in the American Rescue Plan would &#8220;shift business formation, growth, and employment from red states to blue, as the higher minimum wage erodes red states\u2019 labor cost advantage in many job categories.&#8221; What\u2019s best for Cuomo, however, is not what\u2019s best for the country.<\/p>\n<p>A steep minimum wage hike in the middle of an economic crisis that disproportionately affects small business is the exact opposite of what you want to do to spur full employment. But it does make sense if you are using the crisis to gain leverage for unions and government over free labor and the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Blue America began to claw back red America\u2019s earnings last week. And the next four years (at least) will see the Biden coalition press its advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/bidens-blue-state-claw-back\/\">Biden\u2019s Blue State Claw Back<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can accuse President Biden of easing into office. His first days have been a blizzard of executive orders, presidential memorandums, and official proclamations. He says he wants to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891828,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3702,3706,4138,4141,3772],"class_list":["post-113776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-back","tag-bidens","tag-blue","tag-claw","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}