history, the lowest unemployment rate. everybody was doing better. 56% of the country said i'm better off now than four years ago under obama and biden. so you know, that's just the economic reality. you could have the myth that billionaires -- a few handful of billionaires can pay for this spending when democrats were pro mosting spending billions. now they're spending trillions. they're arguing over whether -- they're saying -- when manchin says my feeling is 1. 5 trillion, they say that is chump change. that's not enough money. that's where we are right now. this bill, even at 1.5 trillion is going to tax every morn. you know why? it's going to drive inflation. it's going to continue to overheat the demand side of the economy, the supply side can't keep up. workers are being discouraged to go to work and the result is shortages and higher prices. inflation is a tax. it's as much as if the