Joe Biden came up with another truly stupid solution to the high gas prices. Team Biden wants to take money from taxpayers who can’t afford the gas prices to buy gas cards for other Americans who can’t afford the gas either. This, of course, would add to inflation.
It’s also another government program that will be rife with fraud.
Lucky for us, he hasn’t been able to do it because of a chip shortage. What a ridiculously incompetent administration.
The gas prices and the chip shortages are due to bad policies. Biden won’t change the policies. His only solutions are socialist, big government solutions that didn’t work in the first place.
Why doesn’t he just drill, baby, drill, build pipelines, and refineries, offer leases, and allow investments?
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS
…Still, Biden officials are taking a second look at whether the federal government could send rebate cards out to millions of American drivers to help them pay at gas stations — an idea they examined months ago before ruling it out. Aides had found that shortages in the U.S. chip industry would make it hard to produce enough rebate cards, two people familiar with the matter said. White House officials also fear there would be no way to prevent consumers from using them for purchases other than gasoline, according to another person familiar with the discussions. Even if the administration embraces the proposal, it would probably require congressional approval and face long odds among lawmakers wary of spending more money…
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Even if there was no chip shortage, even if inflation was not rampaging; there is NO constitutional support for any card welfare cards. Just like there’s nothing in the Constitution to support about 2/3rds of what the national government does.
just for a few weeks to flatten the curve and get the ration cards into circulation
We could always go back to ration books, similar to what we used in WW2. Who says modern problems need modern solutions?
limit 1,500 gallons of fuel a year, watch the John Kerry’s light up.
This is just the next step in the World Economic Forum Great Reset Playbook; Ration Cards for everything. How will your ration be computed, your Social Score of course?