Much like the New Hampshire state budget, or more specifically, the budget trailer bill, The Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) just passed by the US Senate (headed back to the House for reconciliation), is loaded with wins and losses. Critics have every right to express concern over spending priorities and claims that the net benefits will begin to reduce our National Debt (blah blah blah).
Both bills also had their share of pork products and easter eggs. The BBB advances Second Amendment priorities, pro-liberty measures, reduces and ends taxes, and makes some tax cuts set to expire permanent. That alone is a massive step in the right direction. When does the Government cut or end taxes?
Rarely, if ever, though it has happened in New Hampshire in successive years for a number of years. It’s part of what makes us special, even though there’s still a lot of crap andpotential. You have to take the wins, put some points on the board when you can, and they do as much as you can to keep the ball so your team can lather, rinse, and repeat. The other side isn’t going to do any of that, especially this.
The BBB includes a ban on all federal funding for Planned Parenthood—no money for the abortion provider from any source, for one year. I know, not enough, but it’s the best they could do, a first, and one year where tax dollars won’t be used to pad the pockets of this international abortion conglomerate with its massive budget.
You’ll never get more years if you can’t get one first. Roughly 700-800 million will be withheld in the first fiscal year, leaving a struggling PP to look for ways to keep its clinics open and overpay its operational leadership.
“Today, Congress took a major step toward ending the forced taxpayer funding of the Big Abortion industry — a crucial victory in the fight against abortion, America’s leading cause of death, and an industry that endangers women and girls,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Women deserve real health care options like community health centers that outnumber Planned Parenthood 15 to 1 and provide far more comprehensive, life-affirming care. There’s no justification for forcing taxpayers to bankroll a scandal-ridden industry that prioritizes abortion, gender transitions, and partisan politics over prenatal care, cancer screenings, and other legitimate services, which continue to decline.”
Cash-strapped Blue States struggling to keep their agenda and the federal grants they are losing because of it will be hard-pressed to replace the funds locally. It’s quite ironic, actually. Given the choice between overpaid execs and funding clinics, PP will pay its execs, and the same is true for Blue States. Forced to fund bloated government and local abortion providers, the latter loses out.
This is the trap created by Democrat Socialism. Everything it promises is a lie. There will never be enough of other people’s money to protect the swamp that protects them. and fund all the not-so-free handouts and giveaways. The swamp creatures live off the waste, fraud, and abuse, whose undoing they label as cuts to things like Medicaid. Programs their polices will collapse by design. Defunding is inevitable if we don’t make changes now. On the progressive arc, there will be no money for Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, or any of the other grants, prop-ups, and handouts.
Everyone living off them is on borrowed time. It is in their best interest to support every effort to cut the crap now before the system caves in under its own weight.
There are plenty of Liberal Billionaires capable of financing “women’s health care” for real or the fake version peddled by Planned Parenthood. Or they could skip the middleman and just donate to Democrats instead.
That’s the rub. Cutting tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, or gender bender clinics, or greenwashers, or all the folks benefiting from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid fraud, reduces the money laundering potential to the Democrat party.
Democrats don’t oppose “cuts” to programs because they care about people. They don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves and bigger government, and these cuts undermine that agenda.
