Increase in spending does not equate to reduction

The bureaucratic elves in the bowels of Congress have been toiling away at a slimmed down version of the trillion dollar-plus Build Back Better legislation that got sidetracked earlier this year.

Climate Change cash, government largesse and political paybacks for the well-connected. Every politician’s dream.

And voila! The Inflation Reduction Act was born. We would spend $700 billion and change to help “reduce” Inflation. Only in the DC Beltway does an increase in spending equate to a “reduction.”

I may have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night.

RUSTY WASHUM Yuma