Judging Freedom - Now, Biden is Going to Fund the Police_

Episode Date: March 28, 2022

Hello there, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Monday, March 28, 2022. It's about 2.10 in the afternoon here on the east coast of the United States. Biden's budget which was or budget proposals which were released this morning in addition to this billionaires tax and I misspoke earlier. It's not a tax on those worth 100 billion or more. It's a tax on those worth 100 million with an M or more. God, what has become of the value of the dollar when we can confuse billion and million so easily? All right, at least I confused it. So he wants to impose a tax on those worth $100 million or more of 20% on their income on top of what their income tax payment would be. He announced that he's going to use that roughly $36 billion

to reduce debt. Baloney is going to use that $36 billion to pay for things. $32 billion of it will be to fund local police. Now, why should the federal government fund local police? There's no reason whatsoever under the Constitution or under the sun why the federal government should be funding the local police. But Joe Biden has a problem with a bunch of lefties in his party, particularly Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her very, very progressive colleagues in the House who don't like police and who have promoted this defund the police nonsense. So in order to dissociate himself from the defund the police, the president proposes taxing multimillionaires or billionaires to give the police $30 billion. What will the police do

with it? They will buy toys. They will buy surveillance equipment. They will buy tanks. They will buy armored personnel carriers. They will buy machine guns. They will buy military-style equipment that in a free society, we don't give to our police. And this money goes directly to police. It does not go to the city governments for whom the police work. So if you're the mayor of Newton, New Jersey, and the government is going to send $5 million to the police department, it's going to the police chief. It's not going to the mayor or the town council. Same thing for Los Angeles or Chicago or New Orleans or New York. So there's no accountability. There's no political

accountability for how this money is spent. I don't want to see police using military gear in the streets of my town or on the streets of any town in the United States of America. And quite frankly, neither did the framers of the constitution because policing is not a federal function it's a state and local function if you got too much money to spend joe lower taxes or pay off debt but don't give the police extra money so they can buy toys and look like uh we're in beijing and people are protesting against a military occupation. Remember, judging freedom. Like and subscribe.

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