New York Post

We say it again:

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Fresh off ramming through a nearly $2 trillion “COVID relief” package by the slimmest majority, President Joe Biden now wants to shell out another $3 trillion, more than doubling the size of the federal government in a matter of months.

The clear idea: to fundamenta­lly transform the nation in accordance with radicallef­tist visions before Democrats lose control of Congress in 2022. Thus, it’s kitchen-sink time: massive infrastruc­ture and “green” spending, more dough for teachers’ unions, free college tuition, to address “poverty” and “inequality” — you name it.

All thinly covered with Biden’s empty talk of “unity” and pretension­s that some of this would boost the economy.

Consider: The combined $5 trillion in new outlays would cost every household in America an average of nearly $40,000, or 61 percent of median household income, as Dan McLaughlin points out at National Review.

You’d have to confiscate every penny of Jeff Bezos’ $180 billion net worth, plus that of 26 other equally rich guys just to pay for it. Even if you swiped all the assets of every billionair­e in America, you’d still run short — with no billionair­es left “to pay taxes to support the other $4.48 trillion the government spends,” McLaughlin notes.

We’re all for spending targeted to projects that actually make sense, such as the Gateway commuter-rail trans-Hudson tunnel. Yet there’s no sign any of this new cash would be justified on the merits.

This puts the proverbial drunken sailor to shame: It’s spending like the entire US Navy on a month-long bender and an infinite line of credit. Biden’s not “thinking big” here, he’s not thinking at all.

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