{"id":88242,"date":"2021-10-06T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88242"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:57:19","slug":"a-3-5-trillion-plunge-into-socialism-then-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88242","title":{"rendered":"A $3.5 trillion plunge into socialism … then communism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A $3.5 trillion plunge into socialism<\/h1>\n

Nolan Finley
\nThe Detroit News<\/p>\n

Democrats continue their internal fight over how much of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending proposal they can get away with passing, but for those who believe in fiscal and personal responsibility, the battle is already lost.<\/p>\n

Whether the whole banana is adopted, or a somewhat smaller slice, it is all but certain\u00a0 America will see the largest expansion of government since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiative in the ’60s.<\/p>\n

It became inevitable once Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who had been a holdout for spending sanity, agreed to accept $1.5 trillion in new giveaways. That’s now the floor; the ceiling will be decided based on how much sugar Democrats sprinkle on Manchin’s home state.<\/p>\n

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The betting line is $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion for the final package \u2014 if Democrats can get their hard-line liberal caucus to recognize what victory looks like.<\/p>\n

So this will not be a good week for those who believe the individual\u00a0should be the most powerful force in American life. Biden’s package is designed to broaden dependency on the government to cover a wide swath of the middle class.<\/p>\n