{"id":1595732,"date":"2022-08-09T06:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595732"},"modified":"2022-08-09T06:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:47:21","slug":"dont-be-fooled-the-left-is-gaslighting-on-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-be-fooled-the-left-is-gaslighting-on-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Fooled\u2014the Left Is Gaslighting On The Economy"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdont-be-fooled-the-left-is-gaslighting-on-the-economy%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=1595732&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--><div><\/div>\n<p><em>By Dr. Robert McClure for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearflorida.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearFlorida<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession.\u201d \u2013 President Barack Obama, August 5, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not here. Not in the state proudly dubbed the \u201cFree State of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a shame to have to point this out, but the United States Senate is considering legislation so inappropriately titled that it might come right out of the bizarro episode of Seinfeld. Nevertheless, while the country is reeling from the onset of a recession coupled with near-double-digit inflation, the most left-wing elements of our policymaking body in Washington seem to have convinced Senator Joe Manchin that down is up, wrong is right, and pain is pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: the policy proposals contained in the hilariously named \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d would be folly in good economic times. In the current environment, however, they represent outright recklessness.<\/p>\n<p>The Left is playing chicken with the possibility of a depression, and they need to be called out. This agenda, if enacted, would do nothing for Floridians and everything for the bureaucrat class in D.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/senator-joe-manchin-swears-inflation-reduction-act-wont-raise-taxes-on-americans-despite-all-the-signs-it-will\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Joe Manchin Swears \u2018Inflation Reduction Act\u2019 Won\u2019t Raise Taxes On Americans Despite All The Signs It Will<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tax hikes on small businesses and investors, giveaways to the Left\u2019s most radical special interest groups, elements of the \u201cgreen new deal\u201d that are so bad they couldn\u2019t pass the Senate on their own merits, and a massive increase in IRS agents to help administer the new bloat \u2013 all presented in a reconciliation package to get around the Senate\u2019s pesky check-and-balance filibuster rule.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>And don\u2019t be fooled into believing that this legislation will somehow reduce the deficit. It\u2019s an accounting gimmick that has nothing to do with reducing the federal government\u2019s spending spree while taking more and more of Americans\u2019 income. They\u2019re lining their pockets with the fruits of all our labor.<\/p>\n<p>And what do we get from it?<\/p>\n<p>The nonpartisan Tax Foundation ran the numbers on the proposals in the package and \u2013 shock! \u2013 the results would be higher taxes, fewer jobs, less economic activity, lower wages, and zero impact on today\u2019s runaway inflation. It\u2019s about nothing more than expanding the scope and size of the federal government and how much control Washington, D.C. has over our everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida, Governor DeSantis recently signed a budget that included a gas tax holiday. But the Inflation Reduction Act includes a $25 billion crude oil tax, resulting in a 16.4 cents-per-barrel tax hike. You can count on it resulting in higher prices at Florida gas pumps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/democrats-to-raise-taxes-by-nearly-750-billion-during-recession-record-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Democrats Reach Deal To Raise Taxes By Nearly $750 Billion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I implore my fellow Floridians to recognize this for what it is. The title of this bill is intentional gaslighting \u2013 a feeble attempt to make us believe that we are in fact the problem. From lockdowns to vaccine mandates to \u201ccomplaining\u201d about high gas prices, the American people themselves are the reason that Washington can\u2019t get its act together. That\u2019s what they want you to believe.<\/p>\n<p>We have been seeing this playbook since the early days of the Covid pandemic \u2013 the consolidation of power by politicians and bureaucrats in Washington and in state capitals around the country. And the legacy media has been covering for it. Just this past week, the Biden media machine attempted to change the definition of the word \u201crecession\u201d to prop up the economy\u2019s abysmal performance since January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They even got Wikipedia to change the definition of the word \u201cdefinition\u201d to make you disbelieve your lying eyes. Now they\u2019re intent on using policies most Americans oppose to bribe the radical Left into improving their chances this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Floridians: don\u2019t fall for it. The Biden policy agenda is a disaster for our economy, and all the gaslighting in the world won\u2019t change that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission from Real Clear Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Robert McClure is president and CEO of The James Madison Institute in Tallahassee, Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">The opinions expressed by contributors and\/or content partners are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Political Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Robert McClure for RealClearFlorida \u201cThe last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession.\u201d \u2013 President Barack Obama, August 5, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595732","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=1595732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}