Posted on 04/03/2021 11:11:55 AM PDT by John Semmens
Despite President Biden using an example of a collapsing bridge as a highlight of his pitch for his $2.6 trillion infrastructure proposal, only 5% of the money would be spent on building and repairing roads and bridges. Fox News' White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki why so little was allocated to this purpose.
"We're trying to foster public support for the President's plan," she said. "As we learned from the COVID pandemic, raising the public's level of fear is a very persuasive tool. Crumbing pavement and decrepit bridges tap into this natural fear response in a way that the other 95% of expenditures in the plan don't/"
"Let me paint you a picture," she continued. "Virtually everyone drives, so for the average person, the vision of having a bridge collapse under them is something they can understand and fear. On the other hand, the need to create whole new green industries seems more remote and perhaps less necessary. Thus far, everyone has lived their entire lives without these new green industries. There's no way we can scare these people into supporting trillions of dollars being borrowed or taxed from them to fund these new industries. By creating a fearsome image we can trick them into accepting spending that they might balk at if they knew all the facts."
Ironically, the business tax increases planned as partial funding for the infrastructure plan would make the US corporate tax rate higher than the Chinese corporate tax rate. Psaki described this feature as "a subtle way of encouraging polluting industries to move their operations to China. Our consumers could then buy what they need from China while the emissions resulting from producing these goods are borne by the Chinese people. This will undo the damage done by Trump's ill-conceived strategy of encouraging businesses to bring their factories back to America."
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These numbers are on par with the Clinton Foundation. 1 dollar for you and 19 for me as the “administrator”.
Good work if you can get it.....
BOONDOGGLE
Biden just wants them to build a bridge to Air Force 1 with no stairs.
The democrooks doing what democrooks do. Stealing from citizens to finance their commie friends.
Does the “Big Guy” get his 10%???
Standard trick of the politicians.
Heard it all the time in Tucson. Tucson is run by Democrats. The roads are terrible, the crime rate even worse. Poverty too.
Every time they propose tax increases, they do it to fix the roads and hire law enforcement. Then they turn around and waste the money on their favorite leftist programs, like paying themselves rises, building a hotel, creating park or some other green project.
Roads and safety get a token funding, but they will be “surely” funded next time when they rise the taxes.
Just the empty promise to justify rising taxes!
5% is a lot of bike paths
5% isn’t enough to do the Environmental studies on a bike path.
Big wind, sleazy solar, and curb natural gas.
(I’ve given up on fighting it, just trying to figure out how to make money off it)
In addition, probably, at least 70% of that 5% will be for the usual local construction bribes...
So a far more relevant statement would be:
"...only 1.5% of the money would be spent on building and repairing roads and bridges. "
Given BiteMe’s history; the bridge he spoke about will collapse for lack of funding.
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