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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Biden-Pelosi-Schumer Policies Birthed Runaway Inflation, and They Threaten to Make It Worse
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 21 2022
“Putin Price Hike.”   If Joe Biden and his enablers lie regarding a subject as amenable to precise mathematical refutation as inflation, one wonders what other lies roam beneath the murk of mainstream media guile and bureaucratic obfuscation.   The simple fact is that inflation commenced its sharp upward trend in January 2021, the moment that Biden entered the White House with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer controlling Congress.   Using the federal government’s own official numbers, inflation stood at just 1.4% in January 2021.  Two short…
 
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"Last night, voters in seven states were asked whether they wanted to reduce property taxes through statewide ballot initiatives. Voters in Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Georgia said yes, while those in Wyoming and Oklahoma said no.These ballot proposals follow dozens of property tax relief measures enacted in recent years in states like Texas, Ohio, and North Dakota.Among…[more]
  
 
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Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.