DC has spent the last several decades harmonically converging its Big Government – with Big Business.

DC’s policies – and the nation – have devolved accordingly.

As Big Gov and Big Biz settled ever more comfortably into bed together, Big Gov’s laws and regulations became more and more nakedly helpful for Big Biz – at the expense of everyone else.

DC has long pretended this isn’t the case.  But as the policies got worse – and the results followed suit – pretending became an increasingly bizarre proposition.

To the point where DC just extruded something they called “The Inflation Reduction Act.”  Which contained $891 billion’s worth of DC printing money – to then be delivered to their very many cronies.

A law that prints and then spends nearly one trillion dollars – should not be called anything like “The Inflation Reduction Act.”

We’ve almost reached that magical moment: DC has zero sense of irony – and now has near zero desire to hide it. (more…)