REVEALED: Biden’s 2022 Budget

Grab Your Wallet Were you forwarded this email? [Sign-up to The Daily Reckoning here.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Daily Reckoning] REVEALED: Biden’s 2022 Budget - Is the United States still fighting WWII?… - Does making energy more expensive grow the economy?… - Productive vs. Non-productive debt… Recommended Link [Not Bitcoin: Billionaires Are Buying THIS Crypto Next…]( [Read more here...]( Move over, Bitcoin… Because former hedge fund manager and crypto expert Teeka Tiwari just revealed billionaires have started piling into another coin. And in this replay of his recent livestream event, he gives you the name of the coin for free. Following Teeka’s advice can be incredibly lucrative. He recommended Bitcoin in 2016 when it traded for just $428. Since then, it’s soared to over $60,000… Giving readers the opportunity to multiply their money 120X! But now, Teeka is recommending another coin… [Get His Next Top Crypto Pick For Free]( Annapolis, Maryland May 27, 2021 [Brian Maher] Dear Reader, Mr. Biden will issue his first budget proposal tomorrow morning. Under his scheme: The federal government would ladle out $6 trillion in fiscal year 2022. Annual portions would expand to $8.2 trillion by 2031. The United States government has not spent so deliriously since the Second World War. The New York Times: President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget on Friday that would take the United States to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II ... with deficits running above $1.3 trillion throughout the next decade... Where is Herr Hitler? Where is Misuta Tojo? Where is Signore Mussolini? These gentlemen are presently torches in hell, each of them. Our minions confirm it — we had them thumb through the post-mortem registries. Yet Mr. Biden would spend as if these three gentlemen were active menaces. Government Takeover of the Economy What — then — does he propose to do with his $6 trillion? The Times: The growth is driven by Mr. Biden’s two-part agenda to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure and substantially expand the social safety net, contained in his American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, along with other planned increases in discretionary spending... If Mr. Biden’s plans were enacted, the government would spend what amounts to nearly a quarter of the nation’s total economic output every year over the course of the next decade. It would collect tax revenues equal to just under one fifth of the total economy. It need not be mentioned — we will mention it regardless — the United States government lacks the wherewithal to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure and substantially expand the social safety net. The strongbox is empty. And the Treasury pushes more money out its back door than it hauls in through its front door. The government must therefore go upon the borrow… and plunge the nation deeper and deeper into the red sea of debt. Again... where are Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini to justify the outlays? Saving the Planet The great bugaboos of today are instead “climate emergency” — formerly climate change — and income inequality. Chunks of Mr. Biden’s budget are consecrated to green energy, so-called. His initiatives would purge the devil molecule carbon dioxide from American life. Recommended Link [Bezos + Musk + Zuckerberg + U.S. Military Chasing This New Tech]( [Read more here...]( Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg... Along with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Pentagon... Are all piling into a controversial new technology. According to the World Economic Forum, this new technology could be worth $12.7 trillion over the next few years… That’s 10X the size of Amazon today. And bigger than mega tech firms like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook combined. If you’re looking to cash in on the next major tech trend… This is it. [Click Here For The Full Story]( Yet we have a question… Economic progress depends upon cheap, abundant, efficient energy. This we have already — fossil fuels. They are also “energy-dense.” That is, the carbon dioxide molecule packs tremendous wallop. Solar and wind power, in contrast, cost much. And they cannot approach the condensed dynamite of fossil fuels. The economy would therefore expend more resources upon less efficient, less productive forms of energy, to arrive at the same point. If greater resources must flow into less efficient energy production... fewer resources can flow into other economically productive outlets. Where is the gain? “Men Harness Energy to Fuel an Economy. They Do Not Fuel an Economy to Harness Energy.” Their drummers argue these alternative energies would give broad, high-paying employment. They would therefore benefit and expand the United States economy. But in reminder: economic growth requires cheap, abundant, efficient energy… which we possess today. How does spending greater amounts on less efficient energies yield true economic expansion? Might expanding oil and natural gas production… and producing and extending oil and natural gas pipelines... also yield lucrative jobs that benefit the economy? Might they actually benefit the economy more? Our argument reduces to this: Men harness energy to fuel an economy. They do not fuel an economy to harness energy. Another question: Are these green energies truly green? More Green, More Carbon Dioxide Electric vehicle batteries, solar paneling and other components of these energy forms require vast amounts of natural elements. These must be dragged up from the earth. This dragging up requires heavy machinery that guzzles fossil fuels by the gallon, by the barrel. These materials must also be hauled off to assembly and shipped on to final destination. That entails greater fossil fuel consumption… and greater carbon dioxide spewing. What is more, electric vehicles require recharging. The greater number of electric vehicles, the greater the energy requirements to work the trick. Can wind and solar power give the requisite electricity? No time soon, they cannot. What can give the requisite electricity? Fossil fuels… the very fossil fuels electric batteries would replace. Let the Market Decide We do not oppose alternate energies as such. And we bang no drum for “Big Oil” — we are in no one’s pay. But we harbor severe reservations about government-mandated and government-funded enterprises. If they were so swell… why do they require government crutches to hold them upright? And why do those who rage against corporate welfare… yell so loudly for corporate welfare in this instance? Going green means corporations get greened. Let the market decide, we say. Let 1,000 flowers bloom, and let 1,000 flowers wither. Let the winners stand upon their own two legs. If they are wind and solar, then they are wind and solar. If they are oil and natural gas, then they are oil and natural gas. One final question, only partly in jest: If the climate is in crisis and melting ice will flood the coasts… why does beachfront property remain so precious? Recommended Link [[Sponsored] The “dirty little secret” the Fed is afraid to tell you]( [Read more here...]( In this special report, I’ll tell you exactly how Jerome Powell, Joe Biden, and Janet Yellen plan to go behind your back to “fix” the debt. Their secret scheme could cost you nearly everything you own. Or it could make you wealthier than you ever dreamed possible. It all depends on what you decide to do today. [Find Out What You Need To Here]( Productive vs. Non-Productive Debt We are far from convinced expenditures on these green energies are worth the candle. Cheaper, more efficient energy already exists, as stated. But at least it dangles an economic carrot. However: Much of the president’s proposed $6 trillion budget represents “investments in people.” That is, social spending. As The Times has it: Funding for affordable child care, universal prekindergarten, a national paid leave program and a host of other initiatives. That is, it funnels into non-productive spending. Constructive debt pays a dividend. Non-constructive debt spends it. It consumes rather than invests. The late economist Kurt Richebächer, after whom our company’s library is named: Few people seem to realize that there is also a diametric difference in economic effects between borrowing for capital investment and borrowing for consumption… First, credit for capital investment generates cumulative employment and income growth with minimal debt growth; second, credit for consumption generates compounding debt growth with minimal employment and income growth… Capital spending is really the critical mass in the economic growth process, generating all the things that make for rising wealth and living standards. Dead Weight For decades, United States debt has fed consumption. It therefore requires greater heapings of debt… because non-productive debt does not generate the income to make it good: Until the late 1970s, one dollar added to GDP in the United States was tied to $1.40 in additional debt. This relationship has continuously worsened... For one dollar of additional GDP, lately, there are $4 in additional debt. It is generally not realized that all unproductive debt rapidly compounds. Every new spending requires ever-new credit, and in addition, there runs the soaring bill of compounding interest. It is a dreadful cycle, a frantic spinning upon the hamster wheel. Debt builds and builds at capital’s expense. Revisiting The New York Times: Total debt held by the public would more than exceed the annual value of economic output, rising to 117 percent of the size of the economy in 2031. By 2024, debt as a share of the economy would rise to its highest level in American history, eclipsing its World War II-era record. Gradually, Then Suddenly Of course, Mr. Biden’s $6 trillion proposed budget is a mere Christmas list. He may request his bright red fire engine. But it does not mean Santa will leave the toy under the tree. Any budget proposal must first clear Congress. We suspect it will get a good sandpapering on its way through the mill. But this we must consider: The president’s party commands both houses of Congress. Without internal rebellion, much of the proposal may push on through. But it makes no nevermind. We hazard the nation is already too far down the hill, past the point of all return. And the gradient, once gentle enough, is steeper by the day. How does a man go broke? Gradually, said Hemingway — then suddenly. Suddenly... indeed... Regards, [Brian Maher] Brian Maher Managing Editor, The Daily Reckoning Editor’s note: America’s #1 futurist, George Gilder, believes [we’re in the early stages of not just an alternative financial system emerging, but a whole new form of the internet itself.]( In fact, understanding what this all means could be one of the most valuable things you ever do. Are you prepared for life after bitcoin? 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