Less than four weeks after proposing his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan (AJP), President Biden unveiled another $1.8 trillion in spending for his American Families Plan (AFP) last month. The AFP is being packaged as another part of Biden’s infrastructure…
The Biden administration has made the fight against climate change a central part of its $2 trillion infrastructure plan. This legislation, if it ever sees the light of day, would shovel more than $100 billion of subsidies toward boosting the…
QAnon Shaman and his associates in that room emitted more gravitas and a less unsettling vibe than last night’s covetous bunch. Hundreds of masked people conspired to rob your children and grandchildren on Wednesday evening in Washington. Like the Hamburglar,…
Pete Buttigieg continues to refer to everything as “infrastructure.” The transportation secretary, who has already redefined the word to include “broadband,” “eldercare,” “childcare,” and whatever else is on President Biden’s progressive wish list, is now classifying climate-related policy as “infrastructure.”…
In 1850, the French economist Claude Bastiat published the essay “That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen,” also known as the “Broken Window Fallacy.” In the essay, Bastiat describes a hypothetical situation in which the son of…
While President Joe Biden’s administration doesn’t seem to need an excuse to spend money, two recurring arguments for his gigantic $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal are that our roads and bridges are “crumbling” and that modernization would generate economic growth and…
On Friday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg held his first press briefing at the White House to pitch President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. Buttigieg, ever the salesman, described the so-called American Jobs Plan (AJP) as “the best chance in our…
President Joe Biden’s new spending plan amps up rhetoric on national competition with China, maintaining the confrontational approach established by the previous administration. But whereas the 45th president championed what he called American energy dominance as a key element of…