"Trillion-dollar" is the first red flag, do you think poor people are going to pay for any of this? How is spending a trillion dollars "good"?
"will-have-massive-impacts-on-small-towns-across-america" Yes, like a meteor would have a massive impact and wipe the small towns out. But don't worry we will just let in more illegal aliens to drive down the wages and take whatever jobs are still available in these small towns.
"Inflation Reduction bill"? Oh and let's throw in some climate change with that? Its moronic that they try to reduce gas prices while raising interest rates, it's counter active. And then to say you are trying to change the climate while getting lower gas prices? None of any of this makes sense. Here is a real kicker thrown into the Inflation reduction bill, they set limits on how much drug companies can raise the price of drugs, so the drug companies just stop making those drugs and when they come up with new drugs and put a super high price on them. These things that are meant to help does more harm then good.
The Democrats think they can buy votes by handing out "free money", but anybody with common sense (and a little work ethic) can easily see that this is just taking money out of their pockets. When they pull a barrel of oil out of the ground they don't shove $120 back down the hole to pay for it, somebody is making money off that. This "Robin Hood" theory of taking money from the rich to give to the poor is false hope. Rich people are much smarter then poor people, that's why they are rich, taking this extra money poor people get is like taking candy from a baby, it doesn't take much talent. The problem is much of this money they are handing out to the poor is coming from the working class, they are getting screwed from both ends.
1. I'm sure everybody pays for the spending on infrastructure, either directly or indirectly. However paying for the infrastructure we all use, either directly or indirectly is still good for the country.
2. Maybe you can elaborate how paying for roads, bridges, hospitals, police, fire and Internet is akin to a meteor strike. The alternative of letting all that fall into disrepair and divestment is not good.
3. Gas pricing isn't a direct aspect of the bill, beyond the investment into renewable energy and EVs, but I don't see a problem with that, since it does help the environment and helps the US compete in those areas. No need to let China have all that.
4. Why do you want to prevent Medicare from negotiating drug prices? It was mind-numbingly stupid to just let drug companies name their price for the largest buyer.
5. It's not free money; our money, (government by by, for and of the people) only not just on more subsidies for big business tax cuts for the rich. And rich people aren't smarter than the rest of us, but just better represented in government, since they can spend a tiny fraction of a percent of their income to generate $millions in tax cuts. Middle class like me? Not so much.