Trump Team Backs Away From Pledge of $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan (companies, dictators)
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What did you expect? First things first. Cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations, gut health care for working people to pay for it. Next comes changing regs to let banks pick your pockets. After that, education. There is no need for infrastructure to make America more competitive. Profits are just fine making everything overseas, thank you.
The Robber Barons are now in power, put there by poor white redneck trash. They will leave the wealthiest 5% rolling in dough while everyone else scrambles for scraps. I hope we can recover from this.
Trump's one trillion won't even put a dent in 50 years of neglect and underfunding. It'll take more like 3-4 trillion to do the job. Not all of that has to or should come from the federal coffers, of course. You can't just ignore your maintenance. The longer the GOP refuses to deal with things, the more expensive it will be in the end. One trillion would have been a beginning and maybe kept us in debt enough that we could not afford another war of choice. I'm not giving up on Trump on this. It is one of the few issues he seemed to have a good grasp of.
Infrastructure projects cost money, and the larger they are the more they cost. By and large the federal government has been backing off such spending for decades. The last really thing was the "Big Dig" and that was a hot mess whose stench still casts a whiff about the halls of government from MA to Washington D.C.
With just released total costs for the BD stating the thing ran at least 24 billion (likely true cost is probably more, much more), you get to see why this country has lost its way when it comes to infrastructure projects.
State/local governments cannot do it alone, and the federal has been on a cost cutting/reducing taxes binge for decades. Money for wars and the military that we have, but stabilizing, repairing/rebuilding and even creating new infrastructure is off the table.
For His Orangeness to make good at even half or a quarter of his infrastructure promises would require raising taxes and or borrowing; both are an anathema to republicans in general so you can see why Mitch McConnell is getting out ahead of the game and saying "no".
You voted for Trump who promised doing that in epic proportions. But back then you didn't mind it very much... Did you have second thoughts?
I could be wrong but I don't think Frank votes.
With all the violence in the world why contribute to the madness?
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