We always knew this, but now there is no further doubt: Today’s Democrat Party is a congregation of slaves devoted to the federal government’s perpetual expansion at the expense of every other consideration.
And that certainly includes Israel, amid a war foisted upon it by the Democrats’ friends among the Palestinian Arabs and their Iranian backers.
There is a bill to provide some $15 billion in aid for Israel now moving through Congress. But new House Speaker Mike Johnson did something interesting with it. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: Here’s to You, Cornel West and Dean Phillips!)
He tied the appropriation for Israel aid to a corresponding cut — namely, to the $80 billion funding increase for the IRS that the Democrat-led House passed in the dying throes of the last Congress.
First is the idea that the House would refuse to dance to Joe Biden’s tune and vote on the entire $100 billion appropriation, which would lump aid for Israel with aid for Ukraine and some $14 billion for border security. Johnson and the House leadership opted to split Biden’s package into component parts, something that is entirely consistent with a promise he’s made not to force omnibus-style spending bills down House members’ throats.
The question that interests me most on the severability of these aid packages is: Why don’t McConnell and the others believe that Congress can pass Israel and Ukraine aid separately?
And if both are good ideas, why isn’t it smart politics to vote on them separately and take double the credit for good votes?
One other question: Why does border-security funding have to be bound up in Israel and Ukraine aid? Why is it thrown in as a sweetener?
Nobody really believes that the IRS would use that $15 billion to go after the rich. That money funds efforts to audit and harass the middle class and, in particular, small businesses. Everybody knows this.
So he’s now smoked out the fact that Democrats have absolutely zero interest in fiscal sanity and, furthermore, are unwilling to prioritize Israel over the expansion of the IRS’s capability to bludgeon average Americans who can’t afford white-shoe tax attorneys.
And the screeching this has engendered is really something:
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Article URL : https://spectator.org/democrats-love-the-irs-more-than-they-love-israel/