The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

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Re: “Biden’s BIG ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Lie”

“Unfortunately, too many people will be fooled because they don’t look beyond the name. And if the Dems call it ‘inflation reduction’ or ‘affordable care’ or whatever, too many will actually believe it will do what they are calling it. The Dems are very adept at changing the meaning of words. Listen, they told us that we’re not in a recession, even our economy is shrinking, so that’s the way it really must be. Right…” —Virginia

“Our politicians have collectively gone insane. The Inflation Reduction Act can only increase inflation via additional taxes and spending hundreds of billions that we don’t have on the Green New Deal hoax. How will buying solar panels and batteries made in China help us? Can’t they see what’s happening in Europe, where, after decades of its own Green New Deal, it’s getting 40% of its energy from Russian gas and oil, which is funding Putin’s war? NATO has been castrated by its own energy policy, and Biden wants to replicate it here?! Worldwide recession, food shortages, and a depression are coming unless this feckless, reckless, continuous money printing stops.” —Georgia

Re: “Manchin Hides the Truth About Raising Your Taxes”

“The government has no way to earn money. It only gets revenue by taxing investors and wage-earners. That pie is divided by whoever the politicians deem worthy, themselves included. When a tax comes from corporations, they can either raise the price of their product to maintain a margin for safety, R&D, shareholder investment, etc., or they can alter the product, i.e., smaller packaging, cheaper materials, etc. Eventually, all taxes paid by corporations are an indirect tax on the people. The unemployed vote for this because they are not working so it doesn’t affect their pocket. They think they will be the beneficiaries, getting a slice of the pie. They still buy the cost-inflated goods, and more unemployed means the pie slices are thinner.” —Nevada

“I started working years before I qualified to pay Social Security at 16 in 1968. Now, 64 years later, I am virtually certain that pensions and retirement savings can never survive the current inflation, which is almost certain to become hype-inflation. Please note that the government has only two ways to raise revenue: taxation (legal confiscation from those who earned the money) or printing money. The latter is the primary cause of inflation and is a tax upon everyone who uses money. Taxes are leeches, sucking the blood from wealth creators.” —Missouri

Re: “Global Elites’ Fantasy Threatens Humanity”

“Being a farmer all my life in the UK, now in France, I am very concerned about the World Economic Forum. It’s the start of a global reset in our basic human rights, at least in the West. It isn’t right. I am surprised at the ignorance of everybody I speak to. God help us is all I can say. Wake up to this land grab and new doctrine of complete control by these elites.” —France

Re: “The State Is Stealing Our Children”

“This Queer Marxism is literally child sacrifice. It is the abortion mandate for children who escaped abortion and lived to be destroyed by the state. Undermine the parents and the family (instituted by our Lord) and kill the innocent. These innocent children were created by God in the womb to be protected and nourished by the mother until birthed, and then nourished and protected by the family until they mature to successfully live on their own. The family is totally life-affirming. The pagan state is all about death. The gender lies, the pagan state, the innocents sacrificed … it needs to end.” —Ohio

Re: “Stuart Sheller Gives ‘Em Hell”

“Every point the colonel made is valid. That said, he is unfortunately a lone voice in the wilderness. It would be nice if his brothers and sisters in arms spoke as one, because surely they know he is speaking the truth. The current purge of warriors in leadership began under Clinton and accelerated under Obama. While there are many combat veteran officers in the ranks today, the climate is very inhospitable to voicing criticism, and, worse, those experienced officers are seldom if ever asked their opinion on fixing things. Until that paradigm is challenged and defeated, nothing will get better.” —Virginia

“Ultimately, the commander-in-chief bears a considerable amount of the responsibility, although Congress has a role as well, since Congress must approve promotions to flag rank. Our next president should undertake a thorough review of the upper ranks of the military, including testing for competence in combat operations, and be willing to fire or transfer those who lack aptitude. Congress should not rubber-stamp promotions to general or admiral, but should conscientiously review the career records and characters of those nominated for the upper ranks. Obama and Biden have preferred uniformed politicians who otherwise lack management and/or strategic and tactical skills, and they have thereby endangered not just our nation but the world.” —Minnesota