We the Government
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Welcome to season two of the Liberty Relearned Podcast!
\\nThe President\'s SOTU Address aka Biden\'s \\u201cWe the Government\\u201d speech.
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- The target audience apparently was those who lack critical thinking skills and the economically illiterate
\\n \\n - Why was a bunch of people who have all been presumably immunized against COVID-19 wearing masks at the SOTU?
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\\nThe message the President was evidently trying to send was you still need to wear a mask. He would tell you it was leadership by example.
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\\nThe message most people heard was: \\u201cImmunization gets you nothing.\\u201d
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\\nThe real example was pointless obedience to government edicts
\\n \\n - The $4.1T in new spending.
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\\nThe \\u201cInfrastructure\\u201d plan. (talked about at length in episode 51.)Congress using the same \\u201cbait and switch\\u201d language in describing it. They\'re selling it as an infrastructure plan, but what you really get is about 7% infrastructure and the rest Green New Deal crony capitalism.
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\\nBiden\\u2019s plan to pay for all sorts of child care and education expenses would cost according to some estimates, $1.8T. That\\u2019s on top of the proposed $2.3T in infrastructure. That\\u2019s a total bill of $4.1 trillion. To put that in perspective, the US brought in $3.46 tr in tax revenue in \\t\\t\\t2019. That means that if 100% of ALL income taxes collected went JUST to those two schemes and nothing else, $0 for military, $0 \\t\\t\\tfor FEMA and other emergency relief, nothing but those two items, we could not pay for them. Assuming a national debt of roughly $28 \\t\\t\\ttr: If we dedicated 100% of tax revenue to pay down our existing debt, it would take about 8 years. If you believe that raising taxes on the rich and corporations would cover that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I\\u2019d like to sell you. This means, either Biden is an economically illiterate fool, or he thinks you are.
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\\n\\u201cOur Constitution opens with the words, "We the People". It\'s time we remembered that We the People are the government. You and I. Not some force in a distant capital. Not some powerful force we have no control over. It\'s us. It\'s "We the people." \\u2013 President Biden
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\\n\\u201cAll within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state\\u201d\\u2015Benito Mussolini
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\\nThe two sentiments mesh pretty well, don\'t they?
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