"Economic research -- since forever, it seems -- has consistently verified the old truism that the more government taxes something, the less of it the economy gets. Biden proposes to tax production, growth and investment -- and, by implication, job creation. He will get less of it.

"His programs consequently will miss the extensions and enlargements that a motivated business community would otherwise offer. And as the economy misses these benefits, so, too, Washington will see less of the revenue that the White House has estimated these tax plans will generate."

"When Republicans ran Washington, they enacted tax cuts, appointed conservative judges, and repealed regulations, but they were unable to achieve bigger changes such as repealing Obamacare, lowering drug prices, or reducing the size of government. Biden intends to do much more than that. Biden's understated demeanor is nothing like Trump's aggressive personality, but he is playing political hardball. He sees himself as empowered to make radical changes. Voters who elected Biden hoping he would deemphasize the importance of politics in their lives and reduce society's polarization are in for a rude awakening."

"As if our public health authorities needed another black eye, they got it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deferred to the nation's largest teachers union, over the CDC's own science, and changed guidance in February that would have encouraged all schools to reopen for in-person learning.

"Emails show the American Federation of Teachers began lobbying the CDC shortly after President Joe Biden took office, pressuring the agency to delay its guidance encouraging school reopenings and instead issue a statement that was friendlier toward remote learning. ...

"This should be a scandal. The CDC ignored its own scientific research that proved schools are not coronavirus superspreader sites and that in-person learning can be conducted safely in order to please one of the Biden administration's political allies. CDC officials knew that students were not at risk and that the AFT's demands were not based on scientific data. But they caved to the union's wishes anyway.

"They did so at the expense of America's children. For more than a year, students across the country have been kept from the classroom because of a virus that has hardly affected any children seriously, and the results of the closures have been devastating. Students in low-income neighborhoods have lost years of academic achievement, once-high-achieving students have been earning F's at an alarming rate, and younger children who are still developing socially are facing severe mental setbacks."

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"[W]hile relatively few Americans are paying attention, Biden and Congress are looking to pass some of the biggest spending packages in U.S. history in a short period of time.

"A $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package was passed earlier this year, for example. The 'COVID relief package' was almost anything but that, of course, with less than 10 percent of said package going toward anything COVID related and with pet projects ranging from $1 billion for expanding the Smithsonian to $86 million for assistance to Cambodia, $130 million to Nepal, $135 million to Burma, $453 million to Ukraine and $700 million to Sudan, among many others.

"And then there's the $2.25 trillion infrastructure package, which has almost nothing to do with, you know, infrastructure when applying the true definition of that word. Overall, less than 6 percent of this 'infrastructure' bill will go towards roads and bridges if passed as proposed, while $590 billion will be allocated for ambiguously defined 'job training, research and development, and industrial policy.' Another $400 billion will be earmarked for expanding home health care, while $174 billion will target the electric vehicle market and shifting away from gas-powered cars.

"And if you think Team Biden is done throwing around trillions of dollars like Monopoly money under the guise of COVID relief and infrastructure, think again. Another $1.8 trillion is being proposed in a separate package called the American Families Plan, which addresses teacher shortages and proposes universal pre-K."

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"Even electric vehicles have emissions. Sure, they might not produce tailpipe exhaust, but there are emissions at the power plant which charges them. There are toxic emissions in mining the minerals needed for lithium batteries.

"If it is acceptable to burn coal to make a solar panel, why not burn coal to make electricity? That is the real heart of this debate: What kind of emissions are 'good' because they support the left's agenda, and which are 'bad.'

"Wind turbines and solar panels, predominately manufactured in China and subsidized by government, are somehow 'good' emissions, but fossil fuels, which are thoroughly American and in the hands of the private sector, are 'bad.'

"America is blessed with an abundance of natural energy that could expand electricity and lower costs for everyone. Instead, Biden is pursuing a policy that is as unachievable as it is misguided. But it's unlikely he or any of the rich and connected activists will pay the price. It seems it is always the middle class, powerless, voiceless people who suffer the results of the left's agenda. All while China benefits.

"President Biden's address to Congress connected only intermittently with reality.

"On his telling, every good thing that has happened in America since he took office -- from vaccination to job creation -- is a tribute to his wisdom, rather than a continuation of a trajectory set beforehand. All presidents say such stuff, and they all get away with it, although Senator Tim Scott made a valiant attempt to correct the record. Worse was the dishonesty of Biden's sales pitch for his policies.

"He insinuated that the ten-year ban on assault weapons had reduced the murder rate in the U.S. -- something neither careful studies nor a casual look at the trends supports. He pretended that the Trump administration had ended successful efforts to control migration across our southern border, a brazen inversion of the truth. He claimed that the country supports federal legislation that would, among other things, ban states from verifying voters are who they say they are. Poll after poll says otherwise. He promised that Medicare could save hundreds of billions of dollars by cracking down on drugmakers. Not according to the Congressional Budget Office, it can't.

"Biden conjured a world in which there was no danger from unprecedented deficit spending, no possible adverse consequences from raising taxes on corporations and rich people, no spike in violent crime that needs attending, and no foreign threats that demand of us more than platitudes about leadership."

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"Another pro-President Joe Biden union just told its rank-and-file members: Sorry, guys, you are all fired.

"Last week, the United Mine Workers of America union endorsed Biden's energy policies. Yes, you read that right. The coal-mining union bosses have embraced a bill that outlaws coal mining.

"This is about as dumb as the Pipefitters Union endorsing Biden for president. He repaid them with his first act as president -- killing the Keystone pipeline. So now we have the Pipefitters Union against pipelines and the coal miners union against coal.

"Did anyone bother to actually ask the rank-and-file members what they thought? Can they get their union dues back?

"They should. The livelihoods of more than 50,000 coal miners just got sold down the river by their own union bosses."

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"California will lose a seat in the House of Representatives for the first time in history, the U.S. Census Bureau announced on Monday.

"The Golden State is one of seven states that will lose a seat in the House based on population shifts, a group that includes New York, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

"Meanwhile, Texas will gain two seats and Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain one seat.

"The shifting population is largely in line with the regional trend that has existed since 1940 in which there is an increase in the number of congressional seats in the south and west and a loss of seats in the northeast and midwest. Since 1940, there has been a combined net shift of 84 seats to the south and west regions, the bureau said."

"Joe Biden has been president for 96 days. It seems like a lifetime.

"In just three months, under Biden's presumed leadership, Democrats have threatened to pack the Supreme Court, eliminate the filibuster, abolish the Electoral College, grant statehood to Washington, D.C., federalize voting laws, and enact a labor bill that would overturn right-to-work statutes in 27 states.

"Democrats want unlimited power and are mobilizing all possible means to get it. ...

"Biden's furious legislating is remarkable considering that Biden took office just as the country was getting back on its feet. All he had to do was to sit back and take credit for the rollout of the vaccines and rapidly recovering economy.

"He couldn't even manage that."

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"For the past 30 years, the global approach to climate policy has been making grand promises and later mostly failing to live up to them. At his World Leaders Climate Summit, President Biden promised to cut about twice as much carbon as what Obama promised, which was hailed as decisive and bold climate action.

"This is equivalent to decreasing an additional 1.5 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas annually by 2030 beyond Obama's commitments. But what would this achieve? Let us assume that Biden and future presidents manage to get emissions cut as promised by 2030. And let us assume miraculously that the many future presidents from 2030 to 2100 manage to continue that feat.

"If we use the standard UN climate model, it turns out that Biden's new promises will reduce warming by the end of the century by a rather small 0.07 F -- from say 7.2 F to 7.13 F. Biden told us that his climate policy would make Americans more prosperous. That is implausible. If climate policies really were making us richer, everyone would scramble to shed fossil fuels and pile on the renewables. Instead, his own summit showed the need for arm-twisting even just to make a few of the participants promise expensive new policies.

"Achieving the promised cuts in less than a decade will force utilities to buy a lot of new and often more expensive renewables. They will have to buy much more back-up for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. Studies show that by 2030, 80 percent of the population would still prefer non-electric cars, but politicians will force everyone to buy only electric. Weatherizing houses, as Biden has proposed to cut emissions, can cost many trillions."

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