Biden loves corporate welfare and Trump loves money printing.
Both presidential candidates are statists
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Last Thursday President Biden visited Syracuse to tout a $6.1 billion grant to Micron Technology to build three chip making facilities in Boise, Idaho, and upstate New York. This is one of many grants that have been made available by the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. Curiously, Micron will invest up to $125 billion over the next 20 years, which begs the questions: why does Micron need taxpayers’ money to help build its plants? (There is no such thing as “government money. All monies spent by governments come from taxpayers or the printing press.)
Biden’s justification for the fleecing of taxpayers is that tens of thousands of jobs will be created and that increasing chips production in the US is also a vital national security issue. Anytime a politician utters the term “national security” you know taxpayers are about to get shafted.
Chips corporations are making money hand over fist. They do not need government grants to expand their operations.
The CHIPS Act is nothing more than a government bribe and another example of corporate welfare.
If a bank robber gave some of his ill-gotten gains to a struggling business or businesses which then became successful, should the bank robber be applauded for saving a marginal business?
But in this case, chips companies have the resources to fund their own investments, they do not need Biden to hand them multibillion dollar checks.
In other words, Biden’s economic policies are no different than Mussolini’s.
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an article about discussions Trump advisors are having about reducing the Federal Reserve’s “independence” in a second Trump administration. If Trump and his advisors were “sound money” advocates, they would call for the Fed to be abolished or at least propose the Fed stop manipulating interest rates and stop creating money out of thin air.
But noooo, Trump is a self-described “low interest” man, which means he wants to Fed to inflate the supply of money to keep rates artificially low.
In short, Trump is an inflationist, pure and simple.
Both Biden and Trump support the statist quo. They both embrace big government policies that have failed to produce sustainable prosperity and peace abroad.
In the May 7th debate, I will point out why we have a one-party system and what needs to be done to put America on the path to a limited government republic.
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Hard to argue against this. It's the nature of government to be fascist, statist or Marxist as a method to firmly control the citizen.