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On the recordOctober 21, 2021
Democrats are determined to pass their massive socialist tax and spending bill that will turn the American Dream into a socialist nightmare. Democrats are proposing the largest tax increase in most of our lifetimes. Their $5.5 trillion plan--Senator Bernie Sanders' socialist spending plan--is the largest spending bill in our history and will take Americans out of the frying pan and into the fire. We need targeted infrastructure improvements, but instead, this style of cradle-to-grave Big Government gives Washington bureaucrats control over our personal and family decisions. This spending bill promises to stretch the social safety net to every American household regardless of need. It promises extreme climate change proposals like $3 billion for tree equity and $12 billion for electric cars. It promises subsidized government daycare, taxpayer-funded free college classes for illegal immigrants, universal pre-K, and new funding for gender identity issues and bias training. The Biden administration is actively trying to gaslight the American people by claiming that this spending package will cost nothing. Just this morning I heard the President emphasizing a single statement three times that the cost of this plan would be zero. This is an outright lie. It will be America's middle-class families that foot the bill for Democrats' multitrillion-dollar giveaway through crippling tax increases.…
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John Rose
Republican · Vermont
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Oct 21, 2021

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