IRS to lead "Inflation Reduction"

 As expected, the Senate passed the "Inflation Reduction Act" today. If the Senate was a private business, the government would charge them with false advertising. How does voting to hire 87,000 new IRS agents reduce inflation? How does paying 250 IRS agents the same salary that the Vice-President of the United States makes reduce inflation? Sorry Joe (Manchin or Biden), but you will need to explain this one to us.

If you are a Republican running for office and you don't talk about this absurd bill, you are just too stupid to win. In a bill to reduce inflation, the Democrats are more than doubling the number of IRS agents. The attack ads can write themselves. 

Bernie Sanders keeps talking about how bad the bill is, but he voted for it anyway. Typical Democrat, no brains, no spine.

Major league baseball allowed Pete Rose to participate in a celebration in Philadelphia today. They have banned him from the game because he bet on baseball. Apparently, they aren't opposed to all betting. MLB umpires all wear the logo of a crypto exchange company, FTX. Crypto currency makes betting on baseball games look like a sure thing. Some reporter tried to question Rose about something involving a young girl more than 50 years ago. She got upset when he blew her off. So, the big news is old news. Nothing new there.

I met Pete one morning at the Waffle House. The Reds stayed at the hotel next door, and he came in one morning for breakfast. A few years later, he was sued by a young lady for child support. She claimed that she was his mistress. That young lady had gone to school with me. She was Terry Rubio, the Sweetheart of Pierce Junior High. Yeah, Pete's not exactly on the moral high ground, but is he worse than all of the other ballplayers? No matter what MLB says, Pete Rose holds the record for the most base hits. Pete Rose started the use of the "middle reliever", probably to help his team win and cover a bet. All teams use that same concept today. Are they all betting on baseball? Major League Baseball needs to check out the dictionary for "forgiveness".

The Senate bill addresses the current deduction limit on state and local taxes on individual tax returns. This allows those of us in poorer, lower tax states to subsidize those folks in high tax states. Thanks, guys. Screw you very much.

Bill Russell died this week. He played basketball in an era where you had to shoot the ball into the basket to score points. Standing next to the rim and cramming the ball through the hoop didn't count. If you tucked the ball in and started running, they called "traveling". Don't waste your time looking for that today.

Maybe if Biden had taken a couple of more booster shots, he would have only had COVID once?