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Antoni: Washington ate your lunch, then blamed business
Commentary, Heritage Foundation

Antoni: Washington ate your lunch, then blamed business

By EJ Antoni | The Heritage Foundation You’re paying more for food because Congress refuses to control its spending. That was the testimony I recently gave before a Senate committee, but the committee chair, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, refused to believe the evidence presented. Her plan is not to reduce government spending, but to drive your food prices even higher. Ms. Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, and many other politicians are to blame for the inflation that has ravaged the American people over the last three years. Our representatives in Congress, along with President Biden in the White House, spent trillions of dollars we didn’t have—and that money had to come from somewhere. It’s coming out of your wallet right now, through the hidden tax of inflation. To finance the stratos...
Antoni: Biden’s indifference to Americans’ plight of soaring food prices is appalling
Commentary, The Daily Signal

Antoni: Biden’s indifference to Americans’ plight of soaring food prices is appalling

By EJ Antoni  | The Daily Signal If you’re having trouble affording groceries, don’t expect sympathy from the White House. In a recent interview, President Joe Biden was told that food prices are up more than 30% on his watch. But he casually dismissed this fact, claiming people have money to pay those elevated prices. This doesn’t just demonstrate Biden’s tone-deafness to the plight of Americans who struggle to afford necessities like groceries; it shows his ignorance of his own administration’s data. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average weekly paychecks have increased about $150 under Biden, or 14.1% in roughly three years. Normally, that would be cause for celebration, but not in the inflationary environment of “Bidenomics.” READ THE FU...