Biden’s New BS ‘Agenda’

President Biden is offering a new agenda in his State of the Union speech: A hefty corporate tax hike! Make billionaires pay to fix Social Security! Outlaw “shrinkflation”!

As policy, it’s all poppycock. But even as political theater, it’s pathetic.

Biden can summon up a façade of passion for any script; he may even give us his trademark whispered “I mean it.” So what?

He’s addressed the nation time and again since taking office, offering ever-changing brags, whines and supposed priorities.

Recall his boast that when he’s president, Putin won’t dare act up in Eastern Europe. His prediction that COVID lockdowns would be done by July 4, 2021. His insistence that inflation was “transitory.” His labeling his Afghan bugout was a great success. His vows to get the border under control.

He puts on the same “decisive leader” front every time, but no actual leadership follows.

And after three years-plus in office, people judge him by his results, not his promises.

As for the substance: Shrinkflation is just an annoying form of inflation, which everyone knows is on him. Tax the rich? The Trump tax cuts actually led to high earners forking over a larger share of the pie, as they hid less cash in tax shelters.

And if you whack businesses and investors, you’re slamming the job creators, and so America’s workers. Does Biden want more people forced onto the dole?

As for Social Security: Even the billionaires don’t have enough money to cover its coming shortfalls. Not that there’s any way to write a law that forces them to bail out the trust find, let alone pass it.

Polling may show these ideas popular in the abstract. But getting anyone to believe that Biden’s doing anything beyond again mouthing what he thinks people want to hear would require them to forget the last three years.