{"id":1595990,"date":"2022-08-09T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595990"},"modified":"2022-08-09T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:08:00","slug":"democrats-didnt-pass-their-toxic-spending-spree-for-midterms-but-in-spite-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-didnt-pass-their-toxic-spending-spree-for-midterms-but-in-spite-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Didn\u2019t Pass Their Toxic Spending Spree For Midterms But In Spite Of Them"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fdemocrats-didnt-pass-their-toxic-spending-spree-for-midterms-but-in-spite-of-them%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=1595990&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>Why in the world are flailing Democrats, in the face of disheartening midterm prospects, trying to boost their popularity by spending us deeper into inflation and radically expanding one of America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2013\/05\/16\/irs-among-least-popular-federal-agencies\/\">least popular<\/a> federal agencies, the IRS? The answer is that they\u2019re not trying to boost their popularity. They\u2019re trying to transform America.<\/p>\n<p>The outrageously named \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d does nothing to reduce inflation and will likely exacerbate it by spending even more money. It kneecaps the energy industry, imposing additional charges on oil companies for emissions with a stated aim of cutting emissions 40 percent by 2030, while spending taxpayer dollars to subsize electric vehicles for the wealthy. <\/p>\n<p>Among a wide swath of other spending, it also pours almost $80 billion into the IRS \u2014 more than what 47,000 Americans would make in their <a href=\"https:\/\/cew.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/collegepayoff-complete.pdf\">entire lifetimes<\/a>, based on median earnings. Part of that spending spree would enable the IRS to hire as many as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-tax-report\/biden-poised-to-get-win-on-irs-funding-in-reconciliation-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">87,000 new agents<\/a>, enabling them to go after Americans even more efficiently. And contrary to the talking point that it will crack down on mega-corporations, the majority of the IRS\u2019s audits appear to be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pruett_collin\/status\/1556618905745084417\">targeted<\/a> at Southern and flyover communities with a conspicuous shortage of audits in the Northeast and California.<\/p>\n<p>So if the bill isn\u2019t full of popular voter-attracting goodies, why pass it, especially now? The truth is, the package isn\u2019t a last-ditch effort to lose fewer seats in the November competition, which all signs indicate will be a damning indictment of a failure-prone Biden administration and the president\u2019s party. The Democrat grab bag isn\u2019t <em>for<\/em> the impending midterms, it\u2019s in spite of them.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are willing to sacrifice an election that\u2019s already unlikely to be in their favor, because they have far longer-term goals. They are playing the long game in order to impose their vision of a radically different America on voters, and it\u2019s fine by them if those voters cause short-term setbacks; history has proven the setbacks are temporary. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats made the same calculated gamble when passing the similarly ill-named Affordable Care Act in 2010, before the GOP and Tea Party candidates swept in the midterms later that year. In the end, Republicans failed to use their wins to repeal Obamacare, and Democrats won the game in the long term. They are content to rely on the same strategy again, knowing Republicans are usually ineffective at rolling back Democrat policies.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming a Republican takeover of Congress this November, will the GOP rally enough to repeal this abominable box of inflationary climate spending, suppression of American energy production (and the higher gas prices that inevitably follow), drug <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/28\/the-dems-new-proposal-does-nothing-to-lower-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">price fixing<\/a>, and new tax cops? That would be great, but it\u2019s hardly likely. Their effort to repeal Obamacare had the wind of the Tea Party at its back and still managed to fizzle. For a bill that Democrats rushed through under a brazenly false name with the corporate media running cover, the odds of squishy GOP congressmen effectively turning back the Democrats\u2019 agenda are slim to none.<\/p>\n<p>A Republican victory in November sounds nice, and will hopefully help slow efforts to pass any more radical Democrat wish-list bills for a while (unless Republicans jump the aisle and help, as they did with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/14\/mcconnell-his-10-gop-pushovers-and-any-others-who-attack-the-second-amendment-cant-be-in-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-Second Amendment crackdown<\/a> in June). But if the GOP doesn\u2019t have better goals than warming congressional benches, it\u2019s going to be useless in the long-term fight against the Democrat agenda. <\/p>\n<p>That agenda includes taxpayer-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/28\/democrats-push-taxpayer-funded-abortion-until-birth-despite-significant-unpopularity-among-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abortion<\/a> on demand for any reason until a baby is being born; the practical abolition of the Second Amendment; the elimination of the natural oil and gas industries with complete <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/21\/germanys-green-energy-disaster-is-a-warning-to-the-united-states\/\">dependence<\/a> on pricey and often ineffective \u201cgreen\u201d energy; taxpayer-financed operations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/15\/biden-plan-transgender-youth-health-care-00039844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mutilate<\/a> the genitals of confused minors; radical race and gender theories in public education; and federal <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/biden-admin-k-12-schools-must-put-boys-in-girls-bathrooms-to-get-federal-lunch-money\/\">enforcement<\/a> of letting men in women\u2019s restrooms, prisons, sports, and shelters, to name a few. <\/p>\n<p>The way things are going, a few years of Republican majorities in Congress won\u2019t stop the steamroller, and Democrats know it. They are arrogant enough to look voters in the eye and say, \u201cWe know you won\u2019t like more inflation, more IRS audits, higher gas prices, and fewer freedoms, but we are powerful enough without your support and this is the agenda we want to pass anyway.\u201d The only way to stop the steamroller is for the GOP to learn how to punch back \u2014 to tear down power-grab legislation like Democrats\u2019 most recent bill, <em>and <\/em>to push the pendulum even further in the opposite direction. <\/p>\n<p>When Republicans win a majority again, they shouldn\u2019t just fire the new posse of IRS agents, they should slash the agency\u2019s budget and bureaucratic power even further. They shouldn\u2019t just prevent a universal abortion free-for-all, they should pass legislation recognizing the constitutional right to life for the unborn. <\/p>\n<p>They shouldn\u2019t just slow Democrat efforts to force taxpayers to pay sham doctors to chop off the healthy organs of confused children, they should ban those procedures as the child abuse that they are. They shouldn\u2019t just walk back federal agencies\u2019 attempts to force boys into girls\u2019 bathrooms at school, they should pass legislation protecting girls\u2019 spaces as just that. Opportunities for landing actually-significant blows on the Democrat agenda are near endless, but to take advantage of them requires a spine and a long-term vision.<\/p>\n<p>Until the GOP realizes what game Democrats are playing and starts adjusting its defense and offense accordingly, comebacks like the one Republicans anticipate in November will do little to slow, much less stop, the steady transformation of the America we know into just another socialist kleptocracy. It\u2019s not enough to warm the bench; if the GOP wants a fighting chance at long-term relevance, it has to start moving the ball down the field.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. 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