Last month Nikki Haley said that she considered President Biden to be more dangerous than Donald Trump. She listed illegal immigration, “corporate welfare” and a move “more towards socialism than any president we’ve seen in history,” plus concerns about President Biden’s mental competency.
Let’s examine this.
First off, Biden supported a bipartisan border/immigration bill full of things many on the left hated, and missing things many on the right wanted. That’s called compromise.
But because the presumptive GOP presidential nominee didn’t like it, presumably because he does not want Biden to get credit for “fixing” the border and wanted to campaign on the issue, it was voted down on a mostly party line vote.
Regarding Corporate Welfare, Biden is in favor of increasing corporate taxes and modifying the Trump tax cuts to increase revenue and correct inequities. He is also one of the most pro-union presidents ever. Doesn’t sound like Corporate Welfare to me.
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