Remember the legislation that prompted Nancy Pelosi’s drunk driving husband Paul Pelosi to buy a million dollars’ worth of computer chip stock? Well, it is headed for the House after passing the Senate yesterday.
The Club for Growth Foundation and many other conservatives oppose the bill, and we join them by urging CHQ readers and friends to call their Representative (the Capitol Switchboard is 1-866-220-0044) to demand they vote NO on this Democrat corporate welfare bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this legislation costs $76.195 billion. This legislation picks winners and losers in the marketplace and includes $52 billion of corporate welfare, mostly by providing subsidies to the computer chip industry. The bill provides money to fund the domestic production of semiconductor chips, for chip manufacturing, and research subsidies in the name of boosting competitiveness against China despite most semiconductor chips being manufactured in Taiwan. Club for Growth opposes government subsidies, which distort free markets and pick winners and losers in the marketplace.
In addition to the chips money, the bill provides for a 25% investment tax credit for the manufacture of semiconductors. Club for Growth opposes this tax credit, which is spending in the tax code. Instead, Club for Growth supports simplification of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide for fair and simple tax code that does not pick winners and losers in markets.
Inflation stands at 9.1%, which is generous given the actual price increases and pain being felt by the American people as wages has been overtaken by inflation. Supporters of the legislation argue China could cut off Taiwan from the marketplace, creating havoc for the economy and jeopardizing national security. These supporters must also recognize the National Debt as a significant threat to national security, because as the National Debt has exceeded $30.4 trillion - or $30,467,824,000,000 – the net interest payments threaten to eat up more of the budget than our entire defense budget.
A better solution than corporate welfare and an inflation bomb would be to significantly cut taxes on businesses across the board to increase domestic competitiveness and investment, while vastly reducing regulatory barriers that stifle innovation. These changes to the tax and regulatory code would not only help the chip manufacturing industry, but would help all U.S. industries become more competitive against international competition.
The Capitol Switchboard is 1-866-220-0044, call your Representative to demand they vote NO on the CHIPS Act to deny Pelosi another unearned windfall from this Democrat corporate welfare bill.
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