Upper Peninsula Congressman Jack Bergman is not a fan of the spending bills being proposed by the Democratic majority in Congress.
The Watersmeet Republican took to the House floor on Tuesday to voice his opposition.
“I want to expose for my constituents the real truth about the so-called infrastructure portion of the Democrats’ destructive $5.5 trillion package. You can read for yourself in the bill that only a fraction of the funds go to roads, bridges, broadband, and other things people outside the swamp would generally consider infrastructure,” Bergman said.
Instead, Bergman says there are many provisions within the massive legislation that will cost Michigan taxpayers money…and their freedoms. He was referring to tax increase proposals, and other proposals that would, for example, require banks to report most customer withdrawals and deposits to the IRS.
Bergman was among a group of congressmen who signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, expressing concern over the proposal.
“Such a proposal would require financial institutions and other financial services providers to report certain transaction level data as well as information about the outflows and inflows on accounts over $600 to the IRS every year. However, financial institutions currently report a tremendous amount of data to the IRS, and no evidence has shown that the proposed requirements would substantially aid the IRS’s efforts to close the tax gap beyond the information already at the IRS’s disposal,” the letter argued.
On the floor Tuesday, Bergman said the amount of money being spent on actual infrastructure improvements was “an embarrassingly-small drop in the bucket”.
Bergman had only one minute to speak, and he made the most of it (CLICK ABOVE TO HEAR THE SPEECH)
“I’m asking you to read between the lines to understand that this package will stretch the long intrusive arm of the federal government into your life, more than ever before. Your energy bills, your taxes, your job, your nation’s borders, your economic freedom,” Bergman said.
Bergman pledged to vote against the bill, but Republicans don’t have enough votes to block the plan without a few Democrats also voting “no”.
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