On 12/16/2021, Senator James Lankford spoke about the Democrats’ Build Back “Broke” reckless tax-and-spending spree, progressive social policy, and new entitlement spending that add even more to our existing almost $29 trillion debt. “Some people ask me, who are the folks that actually like this bill? Well, there’s quite a few folks that like this bill. The folks that are in wealthy Democrat-run states, they love this bill because the wealthiest individuals in the highest-tax states, and those are the blue states, the wealthiest individuals in the highest tax states, they get a huge tax break in this bill. For the wealthiest individuals, they get an $80,000 a year cut in their taxes, what they call state and local taxes. So if you’re in New York or New Jersey or Illinois or in California and you’re in the top one percent, you get an $80,000 cut in your taxes. They like this bill.
“Somebody else that likes this bill are the wealthy that actually buy electric vehicles. Incredibly expensive, beautiful vehicles many of them. But they got $12,500 off of their vehicle based on this bill. The environmental activists love this bill because billions of dollars actually go directly to these environmental activist groups, many of them that were very active in the Biden campaign. They get additional billions of dollars to create a new Civilian Climate Corps, a group of young people that will travel around the country actually promoting environmentalism, paid for with tax dollars. They like this bill. Unions like this bill because currently if you donate to a nonprofit, you’re able to take some of that off of your taxes. But under this bill, that goes away, and it’s replaced with if you pay union dues you get to write that off your taxes. So unions definitely like this bill.”
“And the folks that really, really like this bill? Reporters and journalists. Reporters and journalists love this bill. Some of them are not talking about the content of this bill. The reason I say that is because this bill pays half the salary for reporters and journalists across the country. This bill puts in place that half the salary of reporters and journalists across the country in every city and every community across America will get half their salary paid for by federal tax dollars.”