Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is one of the more deceitfully named pieces of legislation ever to come out of Washington. That’s really saying something, considering that coming up with bull manure titles for congressional bills for PR purposes and to smooth their path toward passage is something of a DC parlor game of longstanding tradition.
Of course, once it was enacted into law on a party-line vote, Democrats were free to take off the mask and tell us all what we already knew: The Inflation Reduction Act was not a bill aimed at curbing inflation at all. Joe Biden himself literally said so.
So, what was the true purpose of the IRA?
Simply, it was to create an enormous “green” energy slush fund, paid for by deficit spending. The lion’s share of that spending comes in the form of subsidies and tax credits to green energy sources such as wind and solar power, battery …
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