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Trump's plan to rebuild America will be a lot harder to pay for than it sounds
CNBC ^ | 14 November 2016 | John W. Schoen

Posted on 11/16/2016 11:33:57 AM PST by Lorianne

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To: Lorianne

Loser corporate taxes and companies will open up new businesses and people formerly not working will pay taxes.


41 posted on 11/16/2016 12:08:39 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: BitWielder1

Shovel ready jobs.


42 posted on 11/16/2016 12:09:17 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: muleskinner

California’s budget shortfalls could be solved if they just got rid of all the illegal aliens.


43 posted on 11/16/2016 12:10:59 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Lorianne

First Trump will deport three million criminal illegals, then too all illegals are criminals, since they get $60,000 in welfare benefits a year, that’s $180,000,000,000 in savings right there. We have the money just get it into the right projects.


44 posted on 11/16/2016 12:12:48 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: Lorianne

The cost is inflated by Government Bureaucracies and their endless “studies”. Virtually everything HUD, Army Corp of Engineers, EPA etc does is useless inflation of costs. You fix our aging infrastructure relatively quickly and cheaply by legislatively create a “fast track” authority (like they do with “trade”) that eliminates most of the bureaucratic interference.


45 posted on 11/16/2016 12:13:40 PM PST by MNJohnnie (This revolt is not ending, it is merely beginning.- Pat Caddell)
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To: Lorianne
Let's see.

We've been destroying infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan and then rebuilding new ones.

We've been giving billions of taxpayer money to foreign governments just so they can make multi-million dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation.

We've been propping up the big banks and Elon Musk for years.

Yeah, I think we can find a little for some domestic programs.

46 posted on 11/16/2016 12:22:39 PM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: DoodleDawg
If you have zero tax then what would you have to pay for anything?

Because the money repatriated to America would create more money, more economic activity. That's a larger tax base and a positive feedback.

Note that the effect of earned money on an economy is very different from the effect of stolen 'stimulus' money. Stimulus money hollows out the middle class, because it is stolen from the middle class.

47 posted on 11/16/2016 12:25:48 PM PST by agere_contra (I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for You saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.)
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Because the money repatriated to America would create more money, more economic activity. That's a larger tax base and a positive feedback.

You hope. Should it occur I suspect most of the repatriated money will go for dividends, stock buy-backs, and acquisition of other companies.

48 posted on 11/16/2016 12:47:32 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Lorianne

OMG Dems don’t like deficits and adding to the National Debt? Who would have known!-)


49 posted on 11/16/2016 12:51:35 PM PST by Harpotoo
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To: Lorianne

Obama wasted around $2 Trillion on so-called ‘infrastructure’.

Most of that ‘infrastructure’ was the wallets of cronies.

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Every time President-elect Trump takes a breath, the media will be out with negatives stories.


50 posted on 11/16/2016 12:53:52 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Lorianne

If Clinton, we would not have to worry about infrastructure until after the nuke destruction. Clinton seemed determined to get into a nuclear conflict with Russia.


51 posted on 11/16/2016 12:59:40 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Lorianne
CNBC's John W. Schoen:

"America is falling apart. But President-elect Donald Trump's plan to fix it may hit a few potholes."

Does Schoen or NBC want to address and criticize why not a penny of 0bama's $800 billion "Stimulus" addressed an American infrastructure which was already "falling apart" during his entire 8 years as CiC?

Does Schoen and the media with their select memory care to explain where that $800 billion went??

Speaking of which -- why aren't Schoen and his fellow NBC lefties explaining why and how in 8 long years President 0bama didn't do a DAMN thing to improve America's infrastructure, but are already dismissing Trump's plan that FINALLY gives the issue attention?

52 posted on 11/16/2016 1:00:52 PM PST by HangUpNow
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Simple ....10% budget cut for every federal agency except military, defense and law enforcement. There are thousands of dead enders and political hacks just sucking up billions...take a broom to all of them!


53 posted on 11/16/2016 1:00:59 PM PST by MaxistheBest
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To: MaxistheBest

The best thing that could happen is that real estate values on and around DC drop like a rock!


54 posted on 11/16/2016 1:01:55 PM PST by MaxistheBest
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To: Lorianne

Easy fix. Get rid of the “prevaling wage” rule, and put penalty clauses in contract for failure to meet quality and schedule. . . .

Those two things alone will lock out most Unions. . .


55 posted on 11/16/2016 1:05:33 PM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Lorianne

There is a really, really YUUUGE chunk of change flowing out of this country every year that if stopped would go a long way towards revitalizing our infrastructure.

It is called “foreign aid.”


56 posted on 11/16/2016 1:06:45 PM PST by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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To: Lorianne

Gosh - more of the “It can’t be done” crap from the do-nothing useful crowd.....


57 posted on 11/16/2016 1:31:21 PM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Lorianne

Where were you NBC, when Obama was doubling the debt to $20 trillion.

Crickets. Not a peep when $10 trillion was flushed on it. We got nothing for it. $10 trillion and nothing to show for it. Completely wasted on Soyndra type companies, food stamps and cronies.

And CNBC was silent. F you, commie rats. F you.


58 posted on 11/16/2016 2:53:03 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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