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Biden's Big Government Centrism

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The discretionary spending is divided between 813 billion dollars for "defense" and 769 billion dollars for the rest.

Since Biden's budget increases military spending and does not call for major new government programs, some have described it as "centrist."  Calling a 5.8 trillion dollars tax-and-spend monstrosity "centrist" shows how far the center of American politics is from the principles of limited government.

Little of Biden's proposed defense budget will be spent to defend the American people, although it will defend the ability of defense contractors, lobbyists, and war party propagandists to continue littering Northern Virginia with "McMansions." Biden wants to spend yet more to continue the US's counterproductive intervention in Ukraine, as well as on NATO and other programs aimed at challenging Russia. Biden's budget also proposes spending 1.8 billion dollars to "support a free and open, connected, secure and resilient Indo-Pacific Region" and another 400 million dollars for the Countering the People's Republic of China Malign Influence Fund. How would Biden react if China started spending money to challenge the US's influence in the Western Hemisphere?

Biden's budget spends 33.2 billion dollars to support law enforcement. Federal spending on local law enforcement violates the Tenth Amendment and takes a step toward nationalizing the police. A national police force would be a grave danger to liberty.


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