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Well then just remember the bridge to nowhere, the repaving of Murtha airport and all those hike and bike trails and turtle trails that the stimulus money went to for "infrastructure".
Yes that some conservatives wanted. I doubt Democrats wanted earmarks for NASCAR tracks to get a chunk of the stimulus money for infrastructure.
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Here is why GOP should consider it:
"Under Obama's plan, the top corporate tax rate for company profits earned in the U.S. would drop to 28 percent."
That's a big tax cut, which he has proposed four times in the past five years.
So, he is proposing a tax cut for corporations earning money in US. The reason why corporations do not invest their earnings in US is the 35% tax rate. They choose to keep them outside of US. So, this would give them two incentives to invest the money in US: 1. Taxes in US would be lower. 2. Taxes for keeping money outside of US would be higher.
I think that is a good thing. Why should we allow tax cuts to make Bangladesh look nice for employers?
Ever hear the phrase "The buck stops here"? Probably not, it's obvious Obama and his sycophants haven't. Responsibilities, not just privileges, come along with being President.
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to pay for two wars which Bush put on a credit card.
Better double check who voted for those wars, who continued to vote to fund them and who expanded them. It certainly wasn't Bush or Republicans alone. Obama has spent $800,000,000,000 on war in Afghanistan alone.
Sorry, I do not have the federal government's budget numbers on hand to tell you what is being wasted and what isn't. I am sure someone in Congress does have these and could better answer this question.
IMHO, that is a question that needs to be answered before we start saying more taxes are necessary.
Like I said, it needs to be paid for, and if the current taxes are not high enough, they need to be raised.
Ever hear the phrase "The buck stops here"? Probably not, it's obvious Obama and his sycophants haven't. Responsibilities, not just privileges, come along with being President.
Better double check who voted for those wars, who continued to vote to fund them and who expanded them. It certainly wasn't Bush or Republicans alone. Obama has spent $800,000,000,000 on war in Afghanistan alone.
By far the majority of Republicans voted for the Iraq war, including a Republican president, and the majority of the Democrats voted against it. The Iraq war was the most expensive war in history.
By far the majority of Republicans voted for the Iraq war, including a Republican president, and the majority of the Democrats voted against it. The Iraq war was the most expensive war in history.
I BELIEVE most Democrats voted against it as a CYA move. They knew it was going to pass, and felt safe voting against it.
The thing is, the Democrat LEADERSHIP voted for war (giving Bush authorization and funding). If the Democrat party was against it, their most prominent members in the most important positions wouldn't have given it the green light.
Road and infrastructure maintenance should be dealt with locally, not federally.
How would federal highway maintenance work on the local level, some of those highways go through very poor areas while others go through wealthy districts. You're going to ask a very poor district to fund a bridge overhaul on a major highway.
How would federal highway maintenance work on the local level, some of those highways go through very poor areas while others go through wealthy districts. You're going to ask a very poor district to fund a bridge overhaul on a major highway.
I believe the federal government should only be funding interstate highways while the states fund intrastate highways.
No he should use the Highway Trust fund as it was intended instead of raping it for pet projects that have nothing to do with highways.
Can Obama do that without House approval?
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