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A Bit of Background

The following backgrounds help summarize the author's views on both the general topic: Federal and more specifically Build Back Better 2021 as it relates to that topic.

Brief Summary of Federal

This should be a fairly limited bills area for management the overall structures like highways, military, federal buildings, federal laws, and the like. However it has become the micro manager of all micro managers. They get involved in areas that no federal government should be involved in, and shift more power upward. This has led to each party trying to run over the other party in the eyes of the voters, all the while doing everything possible to maintain their power. They do this by holding onto all of the money, and claiming they know best how it should be spent. But they run debts so badly that no one should be looking to them as an example of anything other than the way to overspend and go further into debt.

Summary of Build Back Better 2021

Shortly after passing the House, Congress went on break and this bill appeared to die. Here is hoping it remains dead. Sadly it was brought back, renamed the Inflation Reduction Act, tweaked a little and passed. It did not reduce inflation - anyone with a brain knew it would not. And now the Congressional Budget Office has said it actually increased inflation. But wait because the spending under this bill is on-going.

Blog Summary

I didn't do as in depth review of this bill as I normally would. However Congress went on break and the bill just seemed to sit on the shelf, so to speak. I imagine a new bill will do much of what this bill attempted to do. Look at the full blog to see what the break down on spending would look like.

Short path to going broke 2021

Published: 2022-05-03

Build Back Broke

Shortly after this bill was initially introduced I began to do a review of it. However by November 19, 2021 it passed the House and then it appeared to die before Congress took their winter break. They have said they want to revive this bill but I imagine it will vary from how it currently appears. So rather than a review, I decided to provide a break down of the funds they intend to allocate under each heading.

In total it appears to reach $1,375,215,105,000 (yep trillion). These funds are allocated and will remain there for between 1 and 8 years depending on the particular section. Some of the allocations do not begin for more than 4 years. Issue with this is it becomes a built in allocation in four years that would be difficult to remove, most likely impossible to do so. Meaning that whichever party is in power would be tied to these allocations without regard to funds available. There are so many items in the budget which Congress does not have the ability to modified or remove, and this would add another item to the difficult to remove column. There are also tax breaks to companies considered to be in the right industry. And there are adjustments to retirement funds, qualified dividends for those earning over $200,000, and taxes on foreign income or foreign taxes paid.

Title I Agriculture, Subtitle B Forestry - $39.5 Billion
Title I Agriculture, Subtitle C Rural Development and Energy - $17.282 Billion
Title I Agriculture, Subtitle D Research and Urban Agriculture - $7.581 Billion
Title I Agriculture, Subtitle E Miscellaneous - $5 Million
Title II Committee on Education and Labor, Subtitle A Education Matters - $95.9311 Million plus
Title II Committee on Education and Labor, Subtitle B Labor Matters - $2.609 Billion
Title II Committee on Education and Labor, Subtitle C Workforce Development Matters - $79.704 Billion
Title II Committee on Education and Labor, Subtitle D Child Care and Universal Pre-Kindergarten -$157.505 Billion
Title II Committee on Education and Labor, Subtitle E Child Nutrition and Related Programs - $1.184 Billion plus
Title II Committee on Education and Labor, Subtitle F Human Services and Community Supports -$1.317 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle A Air Pollution - $47.217 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle B Hazardous Materials - $15 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle C Drinking Water - $32.5 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle D Energy - $108.1 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle E - doesn't exist
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle F Affordable Health Care Coverage - $10.075 Billion plus sums that may be necessary
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle G Medicaid - $1790 Million plus sums that may be necessary plus
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle H Children's Health Insurance Program - adding a permanent $15,000,000 in 2028 plus consumer price index each year thereafter
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle I Medicare Coverage of Dental, Hearing and Vision Services - $220 Million plus sums deemed appropriate
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle J Public Health - $61.555 Billion with $75 Million earmarked for suicide prevention
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle K Next Generation 9-1-1 - $10.1 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle L Spectrum Auctions - $50 Million
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle M Distance Learning - $4 Million
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle N Manufacturing Supply Chain - $10 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle O FTC Privacy Enforcement - $1 Billion
Title III Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subtitle P Department of Commerce Inspector General - $10 Million for oversight
Title IV Committee of Financial Services, Subtitle A Creating and Preserving Affordable, Equitable and Accessible Housing of the 21st Century - $272.3 Billion
Title IV Committee of Financial Services, Subtitle B 21st Century Sustainable and Equitable Communities - $35.75 Billion
Title IV Committee of Financial Services, Subtitle C Homeownership Investments - $10.85 Billion
Title IV Committee of Financial Services, Subtitle D HUD and Community Capacity Building - $2.1 Billion
Title IV Committee of Financial Services, Subtitle E Economic Development - $4.1 Billion
Title V Committee of Homeland Security - $865 Million
Title VI Committee on Judiciary, Subtitle A Immigration Provisions - $2.8 Billion
Title VI Committee on Judiciary, Subtitle B Community Violence Prevention - $2.5 Billion
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle A Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Services - $5.575 Billion
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle B Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands - $5.204 Billion
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle C Drought Response and Preparedness - $4.845 Billion
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle D Efficient and Effective NEPA Implementation - $150 Million
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle E National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administraton - $11.9 Billion
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle F United States Fish and Wildlife Service - $550 Million
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources,, Subtitle G Insular Affairs - $1.318 Billion
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle H Energy and Mineral Resources - $2.653 Billion
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle I Office of Native Hawaiian Relations - $30 Million
Title VII Committee on Natural Resources, Subtitle J Accountability of Funds - .05% of some funds goes to oversight and up to 2% for administrative costs
Title VIII Committee on Oversight and Reform - $17.972 Billion
Title IX Committee on Scient, Space and Technology - $45.435 Billion
Title X Committee on Small Business, Subtitle A Increasing Federal Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses - $2.355 Billion
Title X Committee on Small Business, Subtitle B Empowering Small Business Creation and Expansion in Underrepresented Communities - $1.036 Billion
Title X Committee on Small Business, Subtitle C Encouraging Small Businesses to Fully Engage in the Innovation Economy - $1.075 Billion
Title X Committee on Small Business, Subtitle D Increasing Equity Opportunities for Small Manufacturers - $9,564,500,000
Title X Committee on Small Business, Subtitle E Increasing Access to Lending and Investment Capital - $9.311 Billion
Title X Committee on Small Business, Subtitle F Supporting Entrepreneurial Second Chances - $65 Million
Title X Committee on Small Business, Subtitle G Other Matters - $57.838 Billion
Title XI Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure - $57.838 Billion
Title XII Committee on Veterans Affairs - $18 Billion
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle A Universal Paid Family and Medical Leave - $1.2 Billion plus sums necessary
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle B Retirement - changes to retirement funds regulations
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle C Child Care Access and Equity - $15,427,500,000 plus sums necessary
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle D Trade Adjustment Assistance - $26.76 Billion and Trade adjustments for farms
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle E - no title but seems to address Health Careers - $6,732,500,000
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle F Infrastructure Financing and Community Development - about Billions per entity in tax credits
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle G Green Energy - $3.831 Billion for IRS to carry out all tax credits
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle H Social Safety Net - $20,075 Billion
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle I Responsibly Funding Our Priorities - $78.962 Billion
Title XIII Committee on Ways and Means, Subtitle J Drug Pricing - $3 Billion

Legislative Blog

J.B. Williams, J.D.

Short path to going broke 2021

A Bit of Background

Brief Summary of Federal

Summary of Build Back Better 2021

Blog Summary

Short path to going broke 2021

Build Back Broke

J.B. Williams, J.D.