Tag: Inflation Reduction Act

Climate Alarmism Enriches Big-Donor Democrat Investors

August 3, 2024July 27, 2024

by John Klar

Revelations that a hedge fund owned by Democratic Party megadonor James Simons invested heavily in several solar energy companies while his close friend, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), boosted the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) raise questions about not only the ties between the two men but also between climate ideology and … Read more

Treehugger – What’s Faster? Fracking or Weatherizing Every Building in the Country?

February 4, 2023

by Skip

While Treehugger is still alive, barely, it isn’t the harder hitting / deeper posts of the past. Thus, I’m spending far less time there and I’m just going to put up the last comment threads from some of the posts I thought were worth keeping. This set is both timeless, in the past, and kinda … Read more

Here’s an Idea for the IRS – Stop Giving Rich People Tax Credits to Buy EV’s

January 6, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

Electric Vehicles are expensive and not green, but an even bigger insult is the taxpayer-backed incentives to get one. EV buyers are high-income earners, which makes them high-income emitters looking to buy a bit of virtue signaling.

Inflation Reduction Act Will Hurt America’s Middle Class

August 27, 2022

by Don

Democrats, including Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, and Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas, apparently think that middle-income and poorer Americans are not suffering enough. Their votes for the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act will increase our suffering now; any benefits will be later. The IRA increases the spending that caused today’s painful 8.5% inflation. … Read more

All in the Name of Inflation Reduction

August 25, 2022

by Ray Cardello

In typical Washington style, so much pork spending was buried deep in the hundreds of pages of the Inflation Reduction Act. Let’s get one thing on the table before we dig in. This bill has nothing to do with inflation or reduction. This bill is about “vote buying,” and the Left is upset because there is insufficient spending.

The Misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) is a “Big Lie”

August 22, 2022

by Don

A “Big Lie” is a lie that is endlessly repeated and amplified enough to overwhelm any criticism and achieve general acceptance. The misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) is a “Big Lie” promoted and celebrated by the media. The Congressional Budget Office says it will have a negligible effect on inflation (shorturl. at/bstw0). In the near … Read more

Crowning Achievement or Final Nail in the Coffin

August 9, 2022

by Ray Cardello

You cannot make this stuff up. These were two consecutive sentences from Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) on FOX News Sunday. We are going to completely pay for the Inflation Reduction Act by raising taxes on companies with revenues over $1 Billion and on wealthy Americans who have been able to avoid paying taxes to this … Read more

Maggie “The Budget Hawk” Hassan

August 8, 2022August 7, 2022

by Op-Ed

Maggie “The Budget Hawk” Hassan’s latest ad explains that she is busily reducing the prices of oil and gasoline that are plaguing us. She is portraying herself as having “fiscal responsibility” in another one and being praised as a budget hawk.