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Democrats are still hawking their so-called Build Back Better Act to the American people, but they aren’t telling them the whole story. Biden’s radical bill treats small business owners like criminals.

In Case You Missed It via Fox Business, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Small Business Committee Republican Leader Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) wrote an op-ed about how the bill includes unprecedented and excessive fines on America’s small business owners, the backbone of our economy.

Democrats’ massive spending package increases existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines by a whopping 512 percent and by an astonishing 900 percent under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This isn’t building back better; it’s building back broke—at least for hard-working American business owners.

In attempting to enact these outrageous OSHA and wage-and-hour penalties, Democrats are showing their cards. They obviously care more about expanding the federal bureaucracy than about protecting American businesses or the workers they employ.

Democrats assume all job-creators are criminals. They are counting on job creators to break existing labor laws and to use the fines they collect to pay for portions of their spending bill. They are expecting these fines will total $2.76 billion over a ten-year period.
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These punitive measures penalize work and innovation while the rest of the Democrats’ spending bill rewards the green lobby, union bosses, and other left-wing special interests. Nothing demonstrates how out of touch Democrats are with the American people more than their proposal in H.R. 5376 to spend $3 billion on "tree equity" while they simultaneously go after small business owners struggling to put gas in their cars and food on their tables.

Read the full op-ed here.