Democrats thought slapping the name “Inflation Reduction Act” on their boondoggle spending bill would convince voters that they actually wanted to address inflation. They were wrong.
A poll from the Economist and YouGov found that 40% of people thought the Inflation Reduction Act would increase inflation, while just 12% thought it would decrease it. An additional 23% thought it would have no effect on inflation at all.
Of course, the bill was never about inflation. It was just another Democratic spending spree with billions for climate, healthcare, and the Internal Revenue Service. Once it was passed by the Senate, legacy media began referring to it as a climate bill, dropping the inflation reduction charade immediately. President Joe Biden and Democratic politicians tried to use the concerns about inflation to justify a bill that will certainly drive inflation up, hoping to give Biden one “win” before Democrats lose the House in the midterm elections.
Ah weird. It’s not the inflation act anymore. pic.twitter.com/6vhLI5lqLC
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 7, 2022
What the bill actually does is dump $369 billion in spending on climate provisions and another $64 billion in “temporary” Obamacare subsidies. Another $80 billion goes to the Internal Revenue Service, which will hire 87,000 new agents over the next decade, increasing the number of audits and the number of lower- and middle-class taxpayers being audited.
Karine Jean-Pierre says with a straight face that no one making under $400,000 will be audited by one of the new 87,000 IRS agents hired by the Manchin-Schumer bill.
99% of Americans make less than $400,000. pic.twitter.com/XpU5nm5m1D
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) August 9, 2022
Republican Senator Mike Crapo introduced an amendment to restrict additional IRS audits on Americans making less than $400,000.
Every Democrat in the Senate voted against it.
— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) August 8, 2022
That is the gift Democrats will give to the public after trying to wrap it in their very real concerns about inflation. Their spending gimmicks will only make inflation worse, in the long term and the short term, but at least Democrats get to declare a political “win” three months before an election.
Oftentimes, people aren’t as stupid as politicians like to think they are. Given these poll results, it looks like they have proven Democrats wrong once again. Voters see through these word games and will pay the Democratic Party back in November, though their bank accounts will be suffering in the meantime.
