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Biden’s “Build Back Better Plan” Is the Largest Federal Power Grab in Decades <[link removed]> – This plan gives Washington bureaucrats power over state and local governments and family businesses who know best how
to rebuild their communities. Under the new plan, localities would bend the knee to federal bureaucrats enforcing rules that make projects cost more and take longer to complete. Not only that, but radical lawmakers are looking to stuff far-left, unpopular wish-list items into this proposal, including taxpayer-funded universal pre-K, expansion of government health care, and more just as they did with special interest bailouts in the recent “COVID stimulus” package. This plan promises to be the most expansive federal power grab in generations. The false promise of “free” benefits will only be possible through steep tax increases on working Americans. This far-left proposal won’t build anything except a more monstrous debt which young people and generations to come will be responsible for paying. Heritage expert: David Ditch <[link removed]>

Biden Isn't Addressing Education Concerns in Plan <[link removed]> – The Biden Administration is pushing another breathtaking spending package. With more than half of school districts across the country still in remote or hybrid mode,
your children won’t see the new money, but they’ll be the ones who pay for it. The “infrastructure” proposal announced today would spend $100 billion to help “upgrade or replace crumbling school buildings.” The plan also includes an additional $100 billion for broadband, $48 billion for workforce training, and $12 billion for community college
infrastructure. In addition to passing the debt onto the next generation, the proposal is replete with problems. Heritage expert: Lindsey Burke <[link removed]>

Amazon and the road to persecution <[link removed]> – Amazon’s recent censorship corresponds to the first two stages of this erosion. Mainstream science-based and conservative views on sex, gender, marriage, and embodiment are dubbed "fringe" or dismissed as irrational phobias. Rather than engaging with sincere questions about whether irreversible genital mutilation and radical chemical intervention are moral and medical best practices, especially for children, liberal ideologues simply ostracize dissenters as not "woke" enough. But those who hold these views are not just ostracized. Amazon’s refusal to sell books similar to Anderson’s goes one step further and takes us into the second stage of freedom erosion by economically disenfranchising those who hold views that Amazon opposes. They are not simply marginalized in society. They are refused basic participation in the market exchange. This disincentivizes writers who can no longer sell their writings and discourages those interested in reading their writings. Heritage expert: Emilie Kao <[link removed]>

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