Commentary There is a deep irony in President Joe Biden’s decision to start looking for support for his American Job Killing Tax Plan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And make no mistake: Biden’s so-called American Jobs Plan is a tax increase bill masquerading as an infrastructure bill—which is in turn masquerading as a jobs bill. It will not create jobs or ultimately improve our infrastructure. It will kill jobs and make infrastructure projects more expensive in time and money. Roughly 230 years ago, the same area was the central battlefield of the Whiskey Rebellion—in which Americans opposed (violently) an overreaching tax on whiskey imposed by the still new federal government. After the American Revolution, the states were broke and deeply in debt. Then-Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton concocted a plan for the federal government to take on the debt and to pay for it all via a by-the-gallon tax on whiskey production. President …
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