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Study: Biden’s Legislative Agenda to Kill 5.3 Million Jobs, Generates $4.5 Trillion Debt 

US President Joe Biden speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving aboard Marine One on September 26, 2021, in Washington, DC. - The Bidens are returning to the White House after spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. (Photo by …
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President Biden’s big government legislative agenda will kill 5.3 million jobs and generate $4.5 trillion in debt, according to a Monday study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

The study also suggests the United States’ gross domestic product (GDP) will be reduced by $3.7 trillion, nearly the cost of the massive $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

Biden’s legislative agenda will additionally cost American families a combined $1.2 trillion in reduced income via tax increases to pay for the costly package, the study reveals.

The study also broke down the costs of Biden’s social welfare spending by state, analyzing Texas, Arizona, and West Virginia.

Arizona, where Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) resides and who is opposed to much of Biden’s massive tax and spending, will absorb $97 billion of the cost and the destruction of 115,000 jobs.

West Virginia will absorb $24 billion of the cost and the destruction of 29,000 jobs. Those costs are set to effect the state of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has also suggested he is opposed to the expense and a few radical left provisions of the reconciliation package.

Texas will absorb for more than both states combined. The lone star state will be saddled with $394 billion in cost and 467,000 jobs lost.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s study summarizes the following impacts of the tax and spend agenda:

  • Top marginal income tax rates with federal, state, and local taxes are over 65%.
  • Corporate tax rate up by a quarter to 26.5% for third highest combined rate of 30.9% in OECD.
  • Marginal tax rate increase of 13 percentage points on some households.
  • Capital gains tax rate up by 25%.
  • Marginal income tax rate on some small businesses raised by 24%.
  • Multiple severe marriage penalties are imposed.
  • Effective tax rate on large estates before state and local taxes is 61.1%.
  • Taxes raised on tobacco and vapor products, primarily used by those earning less than $400,000.
  • International taxes on businesses raised by over 20%.
  • $6.89 tax raised per barrel on imported petroleum and increase tax with inflation.
  • Capital gains tax rate increased, unrealized gains taxed at death, death tax increased, and step-up basis eliminated.
  • Cap on SALT deduction removed.
  • Redistributing $6.2 trillion in government spending slows growth.

The following is the impact from the legislation on families, according to the study:

  • National Debt increase is an extra $35,439 in debt on each American household.
  • Jeopardizes family farms and businesses when original owner dies.
  • Marriage penalty on small business owners as high as $130,200 annually.
  • Median family’s income drops by $12,000.
  • Removing cap on SALT deduction: Middle class family receives just $15 while wealthy Democrat donors in blue states receive $150,000.

The impact on business is as follows, the study details:

  • Lost investment of $663 billion.
  • Taxing unrealized capital gains yields 43.4% less revenue than expected.
  • Corporate tax rate hikes reduce wage growth by 23.1% for employees.
  • International tax rate hikes reduce full-time employment by 12,000 jobs.
  • U.S. tax competitiveness would fall from 21st to 30th.

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FTC Memo Calls for Focus on ‘Structural Dominance’ of Big Tech

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FTC Chair Lina Khan sent a memo to staff this week in which she called for the agency to focus on power imbalances and address the “structural dominance” of big companies. The memo’s mention of “next generation technologies” implies a heavy emphasis on the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.

The Verge reports that in a recent memo to staff sent this week, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan stated her new priorities for the FTC. These include a focus on power imbalance, the reduction of harm to consumers, and a proactive approach to addressing “rampant consolidation.”

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Khan stated that the agency should adjust its approach to deal with issues created by “next-generation technologies, innovations, and nascent industries across sectors,” which would imply that Big Tech could be seeing greater scrutiny in the near future.

Khan said that the FTC should be taking a “holistic” approach to its consideration of antitrust violations. “Business models that centralize control and profits while outsourcing risk, liability, and costs also warrant particular scrutiny, given that deeply asymmetric relationships between the controlling firm and dependent entities can be ripe for abuse,” Khan stated.

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 21: FTC Commissioner nominee Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on April 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Nelson was a senator representing Florida from 2001-2019. (Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images)

Khan said that she wants the agency’s efforts to focus on addressing the root causes of unlawful conduct and incentives such as “conflicts of interest, business models, or structural dominance.” Khan has focused on the issue of structural dominance regularly in the past, writing about it while studying at Yale Law School in a paper where she argued that Amazon avoids monopoly laws to the point that its structural power gives it huge influence across the economy.

Khan’s memo also highlighted previous arguments she has made, taking aim at the “growing role of private equity and other investment vehicles” in ways that “may distort ordinary incentives” and fuel unfair competition. She writes:  “Research documents how gatekeepers and dominant middlemen across the economy have been able to use their critical market position to hike fees, dictate terms, and protect and extend their market power.”

Read more at the Verge here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com

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