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White House on Biden Admitting ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Isn’t Really About Inflation: It’s ‘Also About Reducing Prices’
Breitbart ^ | 08/30/2023 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 08/30/2023 5:57:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview with the “Pod Save America” podcast that took place on Monday and was released on Tuesday, White House Counsel of Economic Advisers member Heather Boushey responded to President Joe Biden acknowledging that the Inflation Reduction Act “has less to do with reducing inflation than it does to do with dealing with providing for alternatives that generate economic growth” and is misnamed by stating that “it is definitely about green investment. It is also about reducing prices,” and Biden “is very right to focus” on the green provisions in the act, but those will reduce prices.

Boushey said, “As his economist, it is definitely about green investment. It is also about reducing prices, so, let me be very clear. Now, the President is, of course never wrong, but…I think that he is very right to focus on the fact that, with that piece of legislation, we are making historic investments in clean energy. That will reduce prices for families. It will make the transition to clean energy, as we build this new clean energy economy, it’s going to lead to lower prices and prices that are less volatile, super important. And there [are] all of these subsidies for consumers to help people make that transition and for businesses to make those investments. So, he is, of course, right there. But that is about prices. And then, of course, there [are] a lot of things in that legislation that [are] explicitly reducing prices for families in terms of health care.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; inflation; prices; reduction
This gaslighting is unreal
1 posted on 08/30/2023 5:57:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Word salad with a side of babblecrap.


2 posted on 08/30/2023 6:02:24 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reducing the inflation rate does not reduce prices of goods and services which went up during the high inflation rate.

Trying to redefine the purpose of the ‘inflation reduction act’ to something else, does not help the situation at all, and just makes things worse.


3 posted on 08/30/2023 6:03:31 AM PDT by adorno
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Now, the President is, of course never wrong…”

Sound like someone straight out of a dictatorship. “American tanks will never enter Baghdad…”. “Inflation is purely temporary…”


4 posted on 08/30/2023 6:07:32 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump is very wise in the ways of business, and he’ll easily exploit Biden’s terrible economic record. The MSM will carry Biden’s water, but telling someone the economy is wine and roses is very different from actually going to the grocery store and seeing the prices. Add in high gas prices, rent, interest rates, etc., and Trump has a good case for re-election.


5 posted on 08/30/2023 6:07:56 AM PDT by Kharis13
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The lunatic asylum at 1600.


6 posted on 08/30/2023 6:11:18 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Now, the President is, of course never wrong…”

Think about the mindset it takes to say something this bone dense stupid.

L


7 posted on 08/30/2023 6:14:01 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“This gaslighting is unreal”

It’s real, and it’s working almost to perfection.


8 posted on 08/30/2023 6:14:50 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

and by reducing prices, they mean, of course, raising prices


9 posted on 08/30/2023 6:15:29 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Local LEOs here are getting a 25 percent pay raise. Twenty-Five percent pay raise. Federal government is picking up most of the tab. Communist control from the top down, paid for by us.


10 posted on 08/30/2023 6:27:59 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: ConservativeDude

Well, the high prices aren’t as high as we think they would have been. So, we did reduce prices. SMH

AKA baseline budget pricing.

EC


11 posted on 08/30/2023 6:39:33 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Boushey was born in Seattle and grew up in Mukilteo, Washington. She earned her bachelor's degree from Hampshire College and her Ph.D. in economics from The New School for Social Research.

The average small business owner in the US knows infinitely more about economics than she does.

It sounds like Kamala Harris. Word salad.

If the goal is to sail the USA over the waterfall, Biden couldn't have picked a better crew.


12 posted on 08/30/2023 7:29:04 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Keep demanding more high wages & then demand that product prices go down.

A 4th grader knows that doesn’t work.


13 posted on 08/30/2023 7:43:23 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s ‘Also About Reducing Prices’

With Biden that’s like checking how much gas in your tank with a match.


14 posted on 08/30/2023 8:00:58 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Wallet Reduction Act


15 posted on 08/30/2023 8:16:26 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ridesthemiles

Simply more of Joey’s fairy tales..


16 posted on 08/30/2023 8:49:47 AM PDT by CMailBag (I)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“reducing” = lowering the rate of INCREASE


17 posted on 08/30/2023 9:40:13 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Dems loot & riot -called "protesting" by media. Repub's protest -called "looting & rioting" by media)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Typical for Richmen north of Richmond


18 posted on 08/30/2023 11:24:50 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

<>Now, the President is, of course never wrong<>

Of course, the Divine Right of Democrats.


19 posted on 08/30/2023 3:03:12 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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