Cole: Biden’s overreaching budget outline By: Tom Cole Guest Columnist April 19, 2021
Tom Cole
Earlier this month, President Biden released his discretionary spending outline for fiscal year 2022 – also known as a “skinny budget.” Unfortunately, instead of addressing issues facing Americans now, what was instead laid out consisted of a series of progressive wish list items and disturbing cuts in our national defense.
Since taking office, between executive orders and massive legislative packages, President Biden has signed almost $2 trillion of new spending into law. Not only would the spending levels requested in his budget irresponsibly add to the national debt, it would have severe consequences on our economy in the long-term. The outline includes far-left programs such as an environmental justice initiative and billions of dollars for electric vehicles.
Recipe for Exclusion : CPI(M), Congress Slam Centre s New Vaccine Policy
The Central government is washing its hands of the problem and passing it on to the states, the CPI(M) argued.
People wait for their turn to receive the dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a government hospital, in Chennai, April 16, 2021. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi:Â A day after the Narendra Modi government announced that anyone above the age of 18 will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations from May 1 but that private players will be allowed to set their own prices, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has said the Centre is once again washing its hands of the crisis and put the whole responsibility on the state governments.
Centre running away from responsibility under modified vaccine policy: Congress By Siddharth Sharma | Updated: Apr 20, 2021 18:57 IST
New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI): The Congress said on Tuesday that the BJP-led government was running away from taking responsibility under its modified vaccine policy which overburdens the states, encourages vaccine manufacturers to profiteer and will worsen the inequality between states as well between poor and rich Indians.
Addressing the media here, Congress leader P Chidambaram said modified vaccine policy is regressive and inequitable in crucial respects.
He said the central government has finally acknowledged the problem of vaccine shortage and other deficiencies in the current vaccine policy and nowhere in the world has any government left its vaccination programme to be determined by the vagaries of market forces, and for good reason .
The $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions from former President Donald Trump s 2017 tax law has hit certain states with high costs of living and high taxes the hardest, coinciding with left-leaning areas.
Gottheimer, along with a group of House Democrats and Republicans from high-tax states, recently formed the Bipartisan SALT Caucus to eliminate the cap. The group has said that they won t support any infrastructure plan that doesn t include a repeal of the SALT cap, potentially creating a snag in the package s road to becoming law.
How to pay for Biden s infrastructure plan
The problem is that the SALT cap helps pay for Biden s infrastructure plan, a sweeping package that includes funding for transportation infrastructure, as well as affordable housing, care for the elderly and disabled, better access to broadband and job training.
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