Everything but infrastructure

Roads, bridges, and upending the regulatory structure that protects workers ability to support themselves and their families? President Biden’s $4 trillion "infrastructure" package goes well beyond fixing potholes. It's chock full of policies that would harm worker freedom and opportunity, including:

Components of the PRO Act that would effectively outlaw freelance work.

A complete repeal of right-to-work laws in every state.

A spending spree and other partisan giveaways for labor unions.

The PRO ACT would, among other things, allow the National Labor Relations Board to penalize businesses for hiring independent contractors.

Regulators would determine if a worker should be classified as an independent contractor or traditional employee and could end up blacklisting millions of these workers from their own jobs. That would be catastrophic, especially as we continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

And while lawmakers hope that businesses would simply hire their independent contractors back as traditional employees on a W-2, many would be unable to do so, and many workers would not want to go that route. When California’s Assembly Bill 5 implemented a similar measure, countless independent contractors lost the ability to work and provide for their families.

The PRO Act doesn’t stop there. The bill includes a provision that would kill right-to-work laws in every state, removing a worker’s “free and fair chance to join a union,” despite the president's promise.

Overriding these state right-to-work laws would only benefit union leadership. Workers and their families, meanwhile, would take a hit.  

 In Other News: How the president's "infrastructure" package would hurt our health care
There's a consistent theme running through the president’s "infrastructure" plan: The spending of mind-boggling sums of taxpayer money for partisan pet projects seems only to benefit politically connected interests at the expense of the average American. President Joe Biden's proposed "infrastructure" package has little to do with infrastructure. Less than 5 percent of the package would go toward roads and bridges — out of over $4 trillion in spending.

But this "infrastructure" proposal has another victim: Your health care. Washington’s "infrastructure" proposal would hurt our health care by:

Putting your family's medical decisions in the hands of the government.

Kicking millions of Americans off their insurance plans.

Making care less accessible.

In turn, politically connected interests – including insurance companies and unions – would reap the benefits. To protect Americans' health care, Congress must end Washington waste and reject this proposal.


Protect Family Farms by Opposing the "Infrastructure" Plan
President Biden's so-called "infrastructure" plan puts the future of family farms and ranches in danger.  This proposal dramatically increases taxes on families looking to pass their farm or ranch to their children.
Tax hikes like these deter those in agriculture from upgrading facilities, purchasing new equipment, and reinvesting in their operations, which harms suppliers and manufacturers. A recent study showed that a hike to the tax code like this would destroy over 80,000 jobs a year for a decade!
This $4 trillion plan has little to do with infrastructure:

Less than $0.05 of every dollar goes to roads and bridges

More than $1 trillion in sweetheart deals and carveouts for special interests

Historic, $2.75 trillion in tax hikes that will hurt small businesses, family farms, and ranches

 Protect farmers: Add your name Biden administration rolls back union transparency
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. But a new proposed rule from the Department of Labor would reduce union transparency for union members, government, and the public broadly.

The Biden administration proposal rescinds a Trump administration rule that required heightened levels of financial and activity reporting by private sector unions.

This rule rolls back transparency and boosts a union's ability to collect more dues and fines.

While simultaneously making unions less accountable to workers and the public, the administration is growing their power over labor. Currently, private sector workers in 23 states can be required to pay union fees as a condition of employment, regardless of whether they wish to be represented by a union.

Biden wants to expand this requirement to all 50 states via the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. If passed, the PRO Act would, among other policies, ban state right-to-work laws, allowing unions to force workers to pay fees as a condition of employment.


Sincerely,

Tim Phillips
President
Americans for Prosperity

 
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