Two weeks ago, CTH warned everyone that Joe Manchin’s torpedoing of the $500 billion Green New Deal senate spending program was a head fake; he was always going to sign up to expand the control of the federal government over energy use. Today Manchin and Chuck Schumer made it official.
The people operating the “energy transition” levers will get $370 billion to spend on bigger windmills, more solar panels and new energy programs to eliminate coal, oil and natural gas. They will pay for it by raising taxes and hiring a new army of IRS enforcement officials. In exchange for his vote, the federal government will pay increased health insurance subsidies for West Virginians and pass out lower priced medications.
There you go. Exactly as predicted. Energy inflation will continue as the energy transition becomes a permanent feature. Ironically, Joe Manchin made them change the name to “The Inflation Reduction Act,” and pushed the effective dates for all renewals past the 2024 election (where he plans to be a candidate against Gavin Newsom).
WASHINGTON – Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday reached a deal on a bill that includes energy and tax policy, a turnaround after the two deadlocked earlier this month in talks on Democrats’ marquee party-line agenda. In a joint statement, the two Democrats said the legislation will be on the Senate floor next week. It includes roughly $370 billion in energy and climate spending.
[…] The duo said their bill, dubbed “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” would “fight inflation, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, and reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030.” Moreover, as part of the agreement announced Wednesday, Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to pass legislation governing energy permits.
[…] Democrats will raise revenues for the legislation by imposing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax, increasing IRS enforcement, reducing drug prices and closing the so-called carried interest loophole. Notably, the legislation also extends the Affordable Care Act subsidies through the 2024 election and the first term of Joe Biden’s presidency, taking a big political headache off the table for Democrats. (more)
Look deeper into the people in Joe Manchin’s life that are tied to the healthcare industry. There you will find the familial beneficiaries of the deal. “Besides being Joe Manchin’s daughter, Heather Manchin Bresch, born 1969, spent several years as the CEO of Netherlands-based pharmaceutical company Mylan. She held the post from 2012, but stood down in November 2020, as a result of the company’s merging with Pfizer’s Upjohn outfit. Upon assuming the role, Heather Mamchin became the first woman to run a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company.” LINK
The scheming strategery of Joe Manchin is as predictable as the scheming strategery of Mitch McConnell.
The two wings of the UniParty duck seem still on the surface. This type of ploy is exactly how DC is able to operate, paddling forward furiously, just below the surface; and almost no one can see what is happening.
Once you see the strings on the political marionettes, you can never return to that moment in the performance when you did not see them. However, because too few people see them, almost everyone congregates in the lobby during the mid-term intermission asking, “hey, when did Texas become dependent on windmills?”
At this point they just don’t give two S—ts about regular Americans. We are a mere speed bump In the way of their smooth sailing to endless wealth for which we are funding with our hard work and our minuscule salaries.
This makes my heart rate reach unsafe levels.
Eat a couple cloves of garlic, or microplane it into a glass of water. You will be amazed at how it makes blood pressure drop.
We haven’t been this outraged since……… yesterday I believe.
There’s not enough lamp posts for these sick f*cks.
Are wood chippers only for pee-does?
The mean-time between outrages is approaching two hours, which will soon be the mean-time between outages.
…and the people of WV will soon never again have a coal miner! These Dems, and many R’s, are corrupt as hell!
Hopefully the people of West Virginia will see thru this bs and absolutely crush Joey boy before he gets off his knees
But they’ll all vote for Manchin because he’s a “centrist” looking out for the people. And the gullible peasants will believe the propaganda they see on their TV and continue to vote for the phonies who screw them.
In the last 2 days we’ve got about $ 275 billion for the chips plus bill and $ 500 billion for the green new deal. We’ll exceed the $ 9 trillion pretty soon at this rate.
They are so corrupt…and by they I mean our entire government. I wonder exactly how much they pay to “buy” these people. I assume it’s millions. Meanwhile, raising America’s taxes to pay for their bs.
Raising taxes is the last thing the Dems should be doing during a recession.
Doesn’t matter …………….. they will still “win” the elections.
They know nothing can stop what’s coming. The end of the petrodollar as we’ve known it.
Curves ahead.
Indeed. But they always do raise taxes ,regardless of what else whatever else is going on.
And the Progtards will scream that it doesn’t go far enough.
Worst part is democrats don’t give a damn about how outraged Americans are they know they will easily steal the midterms and any Presidency in the future .
As long as mail in voting is permitted you can forget it .
“Worst part is democrats don’t give a damn about how outraged Americans are…”
They consider it a feature, not a bug.
The way the government is now in Washington, DC they don’t need the American people. The whole thing is rigged and “The People” are not part of the governing equation. Does your Libtard neighbor actually have anything to do with anything more than you do?
All American people are standing at the foot of slaughterhouse chutes. All the American people are being led up these slaughterhouse chutes by evil goats. It doesn’t matter if you are a Left-wing Libtard or a God-fearing Conservative. Everyone goes up the chutes equally.
Exactly. We are in a post-voter, post-small guy consumer age. Funds go from the treasury to the corporations without stopping by us. 😒
The worse part is the Republican Elites who have been in Office don’t give a damn about the outrage of the American people.
We got a “Ruling Class” that only cares about their Bank Accounts.
Just like the Soviet Union back in the 60’s, 80 years old party apparatchiks deciding weather we get our ration of Borcht or not
When both sides are part of the same uniparty, they don’t even need to steal the midterms.
Dominion is always a reliable backstop for whatever results the Deep State requires in a particular election.
Why else do you think they’ve dropped the mask of fair elections the past few years? Elections don’t matter as much when you can alter voting results at the margins.
Emerald Robinson has several good pieces over at Substack on stolen elections recently in Georgia as well as Colorado. The one story about the primary in Georgia in DeKalb County is startling considering the hand recount showed a 33% error rate between what the machine should’ve counted and what was actually on the ballots.
Dear cnash,
Yes! And I am sick to my stomach!
Somehow I hope we will Cowboy Up!
Don’t know how that happens right now, but I can dream it will!
It’s been 4 months since I filed my taxes with irs . Still no refund. Did aoc get her refund even though she owes back taxes?
I haven’t got mine either….
You should never,ever have a refund coming,it is better to owe a small amount ,than to have them use your money all year for free.
I tend to disagree. I always get a good refund. However, it’s been 4 months, and still no check in the mail. I’m getting pi**ed.
Your check was rerouted to Kiev.
I don’t let them play with my money! What is your recourse now if they just decide to keep it? You know, like a national debt emergency or such.
DanQ, you are so right. I learned that lesson after living in a US Territory for a few months. Locals told me they were waiting on their refunds from 3 years back! I immediately changed my withholding to make sure I owed the government and not the other way around, so I wouldn’t have to wait for my refund!
Same here. I mailed my form the last week of March, and still no refund. WTH is going on?????
They had to have an excuse for hiring more IRS agents. Typical Alinski style maneuver. Create chaos, swoop in to “fix” it. Besides, they need money to pay off the IRS agents Who are covering up the corruption.
Have no fear of the IRS turning into the Gestapo as they are practically out of guns and ammo.
Ooops, no they’re not. . .
“An official report says that at the end of 2017, the tax agency had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in its weapons inventory.“
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2019/01/14/irs-has-4500-guns-5-million-rounds-ammunition-paying-taxes/amp/
Checked the IRS web site yesterday.
Refunds are estimated to take up to 6 months.
You are posting here. Don’t think you’ll be seeing that refund.
I guess we can expect an audit in lieu of a refund?..
Us neither….
If you mailed in your taxes, it takes a long time to get your refund. IRS is way behind.
You get your refund faster when you file online and give them access to your bank account. /s
Still waiting with you…
Occasional cotex doesn’t pay taxes and once they are in the club owing taxes is rampant among many.
I’m still owed $36. So many missing refunds would explain the scam phone message on my answering machine about my alleged “tax troubles”. No doubt people are getting worried about the silence from the IRS and the scammers are hoping to take advantage of the people who don’t know that the IRS sends written communications.
The people of WV have low self-esteem. Wow, they sell themselves out for next to nothing
The “people” or just Joe Manchin who is being promised some kick-backs by Schumer?
LittleFlower, just heaping the insults in every post. Reflects poorly on you.
Sundance can you predict how long before this Green New Energy Transition collapses and the US is foced to go nuclear like woke-Germany?
The Turtle had to wink at this.
Well I liked Manchin a little. But now with this revelation nada.
Joe is as dirty as the rest. How do the people of West Virginia keep voting this slimeball back into office. Anyway it is not until 2024 so we have a ways to go yet. If China Joe is found to be illegitimate a lot of this shit goes away.
I don’t know a soul who ever voted for Manchin. He’s despised.
Votes are not necessary, per O’Biden in a lucid moment.
The “key data point moving forward”:
Nobody voted for this stuff — it was selected and imposed ON YOU.
Try to keep this in mind before calling people “stupid” or “insane”…
… unless you are calling the controllers and the office holders “stupid and insane” with reference to actual facts v the deception “stuff” that is normally flowed our way about these guys “character” and “background”.
Don’t get me wrong — my argument is NOT that we have No/Little stupidity its just that we have a majority of discerning well adjusted and smart enough “voters” who have had their government stolen from them by deception, infiltration, sedition and ultimately treason.
BTW: Stay cold angry! We’ll need that attitude/motivation soon enough
Appalachia, Joe Manchin and the Turtle, WV and KY.
My Appalachian people in KY and WV are p!ssed.
Do you have Doe-minion machines also?
So are you saying this package doesn’t take effect until 2024? I hope so. Like you say, a lot can happen between now and then. The World may come to an end by then
Notice, no one from WV here on this site; ditto Georgia. They are not conservatives. They are used to government hand outs. I remember the rally Trump had in WV. The people were really depressed and unenthusiastic. Someone here said because they weren’t used to someone caring about them. No I think they kind of like the welfare handouts…just like the blacks. Better than working
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I have never thought of it like that, you have an interesting point.
You couldn’t be more wrong, Little Flower. Your statements are grossly unfair — to West Virginians as well as black Americans.
And Georgians.
Agreed, Georgia Lane. I used to live in Georgia and knew many honorable conservatives.
generally speaking, not really
I am here and live in my native state of Georgia. So there is that.
SMH
Really???? I am from WV (Southern Coalfields as a matter of fact) and I am on here all the time. Been on here for years.
I can tell you WV is full of conservatives. I can also tell you what you are full of also. Same thing that Joe Manchin is full of. 💩
I remember the rally Trump had in WV also, and you are a trolling liar that people attending were depressed and unenthusiastic. Trump won the State of WV by 68% of the vote and won all 55 counties.
I have been warning people about “How Low Will You Go Joe” Manchin for a long time. Even when people were praising him about voting against the Build Back Better agenda. I knew it was just a matter of time before this flip flopping POS would sell out for “trinkets”.
Joe Manchin will not be re-elected in WV. As a matter of fact I have heard that neither Manchin nor that other POS GOPe crook Shelly Moore Capito are going to run for re-election when their terms are up. They both know that they are finished in WV.
Thank you, WV Coal Man. And, regarding Capito, from your lips to God’s ears. She needs to go.
WV folks are used to having the rug pulled out from under them, time after time. They are hard working people who want to provide for their families, just like everyone here, but their bread and buitter industries keep getting shut down by unscrupulous idiots.
I don’t know about whether or not we have people from WV here, but I do know we have Georgians here, and they too just want to earn an honest living and provide for their families, black, white or any other color.
TwoLaine, agreed – you just described all the salt-of-the earth people I know, numerous, across these states.
There was only one reply when I posted and it was tepid at best. I could not let this generalized brutalization stand.
If we have learned nothing in the past seven years, we should have learned that nothing is as it seems. There are many people in seats of power across this country who did not earn those seats ansd they have stabbed us in the back at every turn. We do not need more back stabbing here.
Our permanent residence is SW PA…we border WV..seems to be more conservatives in WV than my area of PA..We bought a home in NE FL , bordering GA..We were there spring of 2020 during the beginning of the lockdowns. I was invited to join a Open Up GA FB group..it was very conservative..so is NE/NC FL .. not at all like the TDS Dems of SW PA..
WV was flooded with drugs years ago..
More money printed up to buy America’s politicians and oligarchs hard assets. No worries folks this money will never be paid back by you, me, or the grandkids. Our little world hegemony which allows these clowns to do this is winding down. Remove Russia & China from the equation and at some point its bound to fold. However they must be accounted for along with a new BRICS global reserve and its curtains. The only questions are how long before it happens and what does it look like when it does.
This money spending along with short supply of energy and food and a new world reserve has ultimately sealed our fate. A couple points of notice:
–This may be the reason the West is eager to take this to the next level….War!!
–Be very cautious if DT gets indicted. I said last night I didn’t think he would but its hard to rule it out completely. This may be why they have allowed Hunter in the news. They may take Biden & Hunter too so they can scream non partisan. Don’t rule it out. If they go after Biden NOBODY cares. They will get the front runner going into 2024 its a victory. They will face DeSantis but they’ll work on him I’m sure.
If they do bring DT into custody look for ONE more reason that might be the plan. They may want to stir things up over here so badly so they can blame the right when things go to hell.
He (DJT) showed up to a venue behind enemy lines, and had himself videotaped going against(180 degrees) the agenda of the Deep State. Either he expected that response (if you crowd the plate in baseball, expect the pitcher to throw at your head), or he is taunting(trolling) them! He(DJT) loves this! Keeps his name on the TV. Fox thought they could not broadcast his speech? It’s no longer 2016…many have seen it already, via alternate social media!
Sure, look we charged O’biden’s son, and Trump. Justice is blind. Narrative creation.
Totally disgusting news. Excellent analysis.
You nailed this on Sundance!
My natural gas bill arrived, up another $50 now, almost $183 month, budgeted. It started at $75 under President Trump.
It will be even higher next month…. you can thank Joe Stalin!
If they used the 370 billion to build Liquid Thorium reactors and then used the thorium in coal to fuel them and then the excess heat to turn the coal to gasoline and diesel fuel while producing electrical energy we have basic energy independence for a good 500 years on just the known coal reserves.
They are ignorant of basic physics and chemistry trying to go the solar panel and wind generator method.
Ignorance or intent?!
There was an article about the WEF calling for an end to private car ownership.
They are all trying to intentionally destroy our lives, not improve them.
If we spend all our time trying to find food, then they are free to rule over us however they please.
All of these things are linked and they are all intentional. We are at war with our leadership, all over the world.
You are way too kind calling them ignorant when they are actually evil and doing “physics of $$ flow” while we all pretend to not know (or are actually ignorant) their real motivation($). ….Don’t think I’m saying “no ignorance” exists but I am saying the ignorance that does exist is due to phy$ic$ not due to lack of access to sound energy policy based on “best physics”.
Honestly, I can’t read this stuff anymore.
Knowing the reality of our situation does become a burden especially when most everyone around you is clueless or in on the criminality.
Or they all vote for it.
I spent decades with an impending sense of Doom, medically dependent/hooked on various addictive pharma and alcohol. I had no more excuses when President Trump was inaugurated. At least I had 3 years of not thinking the World was going to end on a daily basis. Now the sensation is back in a big way, but this time it’s everybody feeling it, not just me.
I regularly feel the same
I shouldn’t watch the news anymore, but I still do. I have to stop.
Hey W. Virginia- if you like your coal you can keep your coal …
Isn’t Obamacare going to run out of funds soon? Democrats need to print money just to bail out municipal pensions to keep power, what did that 1.6 t pay for? there is no change in my pocket.
ObamaCare will be even more broke if they forgive student loan debt. That nab from the banks was part of the payback scheme.
More alphabet agents(FBI, DOJ, FSB, KGB, Stasi)…Just what we need! Didn’t I hear they(the Gun Grabbers) want more members of the F-Troop as well?
As usual the name of the bill will do the exact opposite.
Needless to say I’m not the least bit surprised thanks to Sundance.
The left are traitors – plain and simple.
How much will McConnell and the establishment Republicans sell the cloture vote?
Budget Reconciliation bills only need 51 votes. This will be Kamala’s big moment.
Manchin’s partner in crime Sell-you-out Moore Capito (RINO WV) will be one of the Mitch McCuckell’s sellouts.
We’re Screwed!
More windmills and solar farms. Know what those things do best? Kill birds. Know what birds do best? Eat bugs.
So this is what they want to do to insure we have plenty of bugs to eat.
Sounds crazy but I am beginning to think like “them”.
Mmm… I like where you’re going with this…
I have no doubt these evil people think exactly like this. Sick souls.
Sinema will save us! Those boots were made for talking … and that’s just they’ll do.”
YOU ARE ALL GUILTY …….. of the crime of Nationalism . how dare you not give up everything you own for the STATE…….
Big Brother will have YOU on the 2 minutes of HATE ….soon enough.
( Brought to by Heretic Enterprise’s …… L.L.C. ) — LOL
It is ironic we risk prosecution for saying out loud what every signer of the Declaration of Independence would encourage us to actually do to these folks
Someone should take him exploring some of those deep W. Virginia coal mines. Take his flashlight and ditch him in the dark. No wind or sun down there!
The fix is in.
How much more proof do we need??
Mitchy Mccuckold is lining up the rinoRat votes to enable the democRats to pass anything needed, Comrades.
Welcome to the USSA!
Say it ain’t so, Joe; but you know it is…….
When the Repubs get control of Congress they will repeal Obamacare and other things, including this latest outrage. You’ll get the govt you voted for when you vote for Repubs. Mitch and Kevin and the rest. Yep. Hey while we’re on this topic, I got a pretty good deal on 150 grain 30.06 recently.
And the train of consequences keeps rolling on…
“dubbed “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,”
These people not only want to rob us blind, starve us, make sure we’re freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer, steal our land and homes, break up our families and allow rampant crime in the streets, they have to mock us while they do it.
Heartless.
The commerce clause and the “general welfare” phrase in the Constitution were not blank checks for unlimited federal government power and expansion.
These people have no right and no authority to be doing these things… irregardless of the pretended “laws” they are writing and the pretended “powers” they are exercising. ALL of this is illegitimate and nothing but pure tyranny.
Manchin’s vote was always going to the highest bidder, and no one outbids the Dems in the Swamp. The deal was likely cut months and months ago.
This is why a deep Red state electing a Democrat Senator is always disastrous. Thanks, West Virginia.
Remember folks – there are pretend Republicans in the Swamp, but there are never any pretend Democrats. The closest you get are candidates like Tulsi Gabbard, who move quickly into media and think tank careers after a token office run.
Absolutely!
The Dems are going to destroy this country faster than the Reps but the destination is the same.
At some point in time, it must change or complete destruction for everyone.
The senate is often described as a “club.”
Another way to look at the senate is as a “neighborhood-playhouse.”
If you remember, a neighborhood-playhouse was a group of regular citizens who would present “plays” to the citizens of the community.
Since there were only so many actor-types in the city, as the different plays were presented, the same actors would play different roles.
That is how the senate works. Sometimes members play conservatives ….. sometimes liberals …… all depending on their election cycle and how safe their seat is.
The purpose of the different roles is to raise $$$$. When a senator takes a hard position on a subject, you can bet he will hold out long enough to get the $$$ that he wants to reverse his vote…..aka Joe Manchin.
The whole fund raising scheme is well coordinated between the 100 senators, regardless of the party.
It is the senate criminal gang, not the senate club.
They are extortionists and should be charged as such.
Washington DC should be walled off and declared to be the Universe’s biggest Lunatic Asylum.
The IRS has major issues! If you receive a letter from them and try to call them, you will receive a recording saying they are too busy to answer and call back later. No matter how early or late you call, the IRS has no one to answer the phone! I spoke to my Senators office about this and their response was that the IRS is a separate agency and they cannot help!
What a waste.
Might be better if they nuked Davos.
Claim NATO messed with the guidence system of a missile heading for Kiev.
It’s so irritating to see the buck toothed, inbred, mouth breathing, trailer park gomers in West Virginia put a grifter like Manchin in the Senate. Shame, shame shame. But of course the same could be said of Kentucky voters for giving China Mitch a lifetime senate seat.
….spook…
The left owns the voting machines…until they are removed the left owns USA….they can’t win unless they cheat….a special shout out to John Boehner….and Paul Ryan…one will die by the shot glass…the other…old age?
Poor john barleycorn….twisted and torn…
Why can’t they just leave us the hell alone.
New taxes and higher energy costs are one thing …………………… but wait until real estate crashes by 50%. There will be a lot of hurting homeowners and mortgage holders.
They are two candidates I nominate for Monkey Pox,
Schumer & Manchin
Who couldn’t have seen this coming? And the people of WV will giddily vote him back in. D’s& R’s are both worthless AF!!!
Globalist pawns.
May they ALL slowly choke to death on their purple ties.
Yep…. Purple is the color for POWER !!! They are throwing it in the FACE if every AMERICAN !!! But OUR power is to VOTE THEM OUT !!!
lol
Hahahahahaha vote them out hahahahahahz
That IS funny, I tell ya!
They steal elections.
Right in front of us now.
With impunity, or so it seems.
Uh huh, and Biden really got 80,000,000 votes.
40,000,000 hastily created in the dead of night.
Fat chance. That does not work anymore.
That isn’t working.
Id sooner see them vaporized along with DC as a whole.