This is one of the all-encompassing reasons I’m backing Trump. In the name of global warming our government is experimenting with social engineering providing high density housing along bus and light rail routes and deliberately creating traffic congestion they call calming.
The Department of Transportation did a study and found Americans don’t want to move into these apartments but recent immigrants will. Recent immigrants are more apt to take public transportation. Here in California, the push is on for subsidized housing for the poor, their goal is 20 percent of the units. The Department of Transportation wants to interconnect these dense neighborhoods with high speed rail.
Then HUD came out and demands that every city turn in a yearly report on demographics to see if cities are taking care of the poor. HUD wants to override local zoning codes.
There are no American companies bidding on California’s high speed rail, they are all based in other countries. Countries that are attracting our companies with their lower corporate tax on foreign investments while we here in the U.S. saddle our companies with the worldwide system of taxes. This is the trillions of dollars Trump wants to bring home. We are using tax payer money for foreign engineering, the trains themselves, foreign busses and light rail trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inversion
The U.S. is unique among developed nations in imposing both a high statutory corporate income tax rate of 35 percent (effective corporate tax rates are lower) and imposing tax on the profits that domestic corporations collect from their subsidiaries abroad. This policy of taxing foreign profits is called a “worldwide” system of taxation, and it contrasts with the “territorial” system employed by most developed countries including the United Kingdom and Canada, which generally tax only profits from domestic activities.
In the LA Times excerpt below I suspect that EB-5 Visa is employed. I don’t have a problem with foreigners investing in America. I do have a problem with our government giving taxpayer money to them. In this article it does not state that these guys are from India, which is my assumption due to the fact they are expected to be hiding in India.
How much of our taxpayer money goes to foreigners and why?
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-housing-indictment-20160205-story.html
David Zahniser and Shashank BengaliContact Reporters
Two executives at a Los Angeles-based real estate development company and two of their employees have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they defrauded government agencies of millions of dollars in funds for housing low-income families.
The 67-page indictment says Salim Karimi and three others at Advanced Development and Investment Inc. engaged in a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain more than $50 million in loan proceeds for affordable housing projects in Chinatown, Hollywood, Glendale and elsewhere.
As part of the scheme, Karimi and others submitted fraudulent invoices that “significantly overstated” the true costs of framing, plumbing, drywall and other construction work at affordable housing projects that were built with taxpayer support, according to the federal grand jury indictment, which was filed in 2014 and unsealed earlier this week.
Why is USDoT making top-down determinations that "we shall have densely-packed land use patterns and 19th-century transportation infrastructure", which one suspects is really an attack on the freedom of movement people enjoy with the automobile?
Why do I think that automobile ownership and storage will become "problematic" under this new dispensation, and who are the authors?
Why us DoT moving to restrict options, freedom, and elbow room? Who is deciding this stuff?
More to the point, who's making decisions the People should be making for themselves and their own families?