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Biden Adds Junk Fees To The Inflation-Adjusted Price Of Your Vote

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(Originally published at  Forbes .)  Amid elevated living costs and stubbornly high inflation rates, President Biden has been scrambling to make amends. Bothered by high gas prices? No worries. POTUS will tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – even absent “strategic” necessity. Don’t want to pay back your college loans? Uncle Joe will launder your liabilities in the Treasury’s general assets account – never mind the stealth burden on taxpayers and the Supreme Court ruling against it . Want to jump ship to a business rival after receiving job training or learning sensitive trade secrets? The president will swipe his pen to void the non-compete clause in your private employment contract. Unionized steelworker or construction hardhat working on infrastructure? Scranton Joe’s got your back, shutting out imports and foreign competition , and subsidizing your paychecks with the taxes paid by Americans across the income spectrum. Really, it’s enough to make the late Huey Long blush. Of cour