1. WSJ: Biden’s New Spending Whopper
From trillions to zero in a Beltway minute.

Where have all the “fact checkers” gone? On Saturday night President Joe Biden took to social media to repeat his new multi-trillion-dollar falsehood.
2. And much of the press corps has nothing to offer in response but approbation.
A WSJ editorial noted the latest Biden tall tale about his effort to enact a historic spending binge, estimated to cost $3.5 trillion, will perhaps cost as much as $5 trillion or more.
3. The agenda that was being sold a few weeks ago as the modern equivalent of the New Deal or Great Society is actually so modest it doesn’t cost a thing. Image
4. We didn’t know that when you pay for something that makes it free... And so a talking point is born, or at least trying to be: The largest tax increase as a share of GDP and the largest entitlement expansion since the 1960s costs nothing. And money grows on trees.

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