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(CALIFORNIA GLOBE) – “Just as you can’t drink yourself sober, you cannot spend your way out of inflation or tax yourself out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. Yet that’s what the Democrats claim they can do,” California Rep. Tom McClintock said about H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act President Joe Biden just signed into law.
Yet California Governor Gavin Newsom exalted the President, despite that it will cost the average household an additional $6,000:
“The Inflation Reduction Act is a total game-changer for America. California is proud to stand with the President as we usher in a new era for unprecedented federal climate action. Here in the Golden State, we’re on the front lines of the climate crisis every single day – from weathering drought to fighting wildfires to dealing with extreme heat.”
Rep. McClintock has a better grasp on the damage all of this spending will do:
“Now they are doubling down on these foolish policies. It seems the more that some people invest in their mistakes, the less willing they are to admit them.”
“They’re adding 87,000 new IRS agents – larger than the entire population of Flint, Michigan — to collect $200 billion of new taxes – mostly from middle class families and shopkeepers who don’t have the resources to contest expensive audits. They’re adding $300 billion of new corporate taxes which will be passed on to families as higher prices, lower wages and lower returns. All to give away ¾ of a trillion dollars MORE of your earnings to their green energy cronies and other political supporters – averaging $6,000 per household.”
This is a gigantic redistribution of middle class “wealth.”
Gov. Newsom can’t wait to get his hands on some of that beautiful spending money – for the black hole known as “climate change:”
“The significant funding that will flow to states like ours is essential to protecting people from the worst impacts of climate change and accelerating our transition to a clean energy future. With our own record $54 billion Climate Commitment and world-leading efforts to cut carbon pollution and move toward an oil-free future, our state has been a global leader on climate change. But California can’t wage this battle alone – and thanks to today’s action by President Biden, we won’t have to.”
Not only does Gov. Newsom speak in platitudes when he discusses “protecting people from the worst impacts of climate change and accelerating our transition to a clean energy future,” none of this spending is having any impact on “climate change” other than to make it worse in California. Wildfires are upon us once again, and these are not caused by “extreme weather” or “climate change,” but by neglect and prioritizing fire suppression over wildfire prevention.
The pollution and carbon emissions from the fires causes far more carbon emissions than fossil fuel emissions. A report in 2020 found that the CO2 from California fires dwarf state’s fossil fuel emissions. In 2020, the state’s wildfires “generated more than 91 million metric tons of CO2, according to data from the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED). That’s about 25% of the annual emissions from fossil fuels in the state.”
