Office of Rep. Derek Kilmer press release.
Washington, DC – On Oct. 28, U.S. Representative Derek Kilmer (WA-06) released the following statement in response to President Biden announcing the Build Back Better framework:
“Today, President Biden announced the Build Back Better framework – a historic investment in middle class families, in creating jobs, and in combatting the climate crisis. The framework announced today is about recognizing that middle class families and folks struggling to make ends meet deserve a break. It’s about recognizing that, as we look toward a national recovery from this pandemic, we need a ‘new normal’ since the status quo isn’t working for the countless families struggling to balance work, childcare, and home obligations while keeping the lights on and providing for their loved ones. It’s about helping families that are grappling with the costs of child care or caring for an elder parent, that are struggling to pay for health care, or that can’t afford to pay for college. It’s about doing a better job of protecting workers and communities so that no one gets left behind in our society – and ensuring people have economic opportunity regardless of what zip code they live in. It’s about creating jobs by providing new help to small businesses and about taking historic and critical action to combat the climate crisis.
In addition, the framework is fully paid for and will reduce the deficit by asking more of the very largest corporations and the very wealthiest Americans. Importantly, the framework keeps the President’s promise to ensure nobody earning less than $400,000 per year will pay a penny more in taxes.
This framework isn’t perfect. There are certainly some major policies that I wish were included; but, taken together with the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the President’s Build Back Better Agenda will make transformational investments in our nation’s infrastructure and in helping working families make ends meet. I’m for that – and so are the folks I represent. Congress can, and should, pass both of these bills.”
Representative Kilmer, can you provide a link to this BBB Framework initiative for my reading pleasure?
Biden’s proposal is one giant step towards socialism. When government starts taking your money they won’t stop!
Rep. Derek Kilmer looks like a puppet who simply reads from a script and doesn’t put even one original thought into this press release. Has he or any other member of the house read the entire bill? Does he understand the real cost to the countries’ economy and the destructive nature of the socialist empire contain in this bill and how it will destroy individual pride, family solidarity and put an end to the continued success of America? Can Representative Kilmer point to one socialist country success? Every socialist example ends up the same way: destroying individual pride, producing a loss of freedom, death and crashing living standards that end in death, poverty and national bankruptcy.
Representative Kilmer we have seen this movie for the past hundred plus years and it never ends well. You should study history before you try to push this plan on our citizens. Take a match to this plan, we are full up on socialist/communist nightmares.
I marvel at the extent to which red-baiting still occurs. The claims that government programs represent socialism, and all countries with robust government support for their citizens fail, are absolute nonsense. People who make these kinds of comments are living in the cold war Soviet Union era, or are simply duped by misinformation. Most modern western democracies, especially those throughout Europe, have high taxes and excellent services – many better than ours. You can call these countries whatever you want, but they operate under a capitalist economy while taking care of their people. What could possibly be wrong with that? If the standard of living and quality of life is high in countries that tax the wealthy, why wouldn’t we want that? We have people with so much money they cannot even spend it – money they have made on the backs of many other people. Sure, you can pretend that you can save more money and take care of yourself if you don’t have to pay taxes, but what roads will you drive on? What bridges will you cross? Where will your clean water come from? How will you survive an unchecked climate crisis? Who will take care of your grandchildren when your children go off to work their two/three jobs just so they can barely stay above water? What will your grandchildren’s schools be like? The Build Back Better initiative is an effort to bring us up to a level of citizen support comparable to other modern countries. While improving our environment and infrastructure, it will create hundreds of thousands good paying jobs that will allow people to have time to spend with their families. Maybe you are a wealthy person with a money hoarding disease. If so, your opposition to the BBB program is understandable. But if you are not one of those people, you should check the facts about poverty and how overworked people are in the United States before you do the wealthy’s bidding.