Posted on 04/01/2021 11:00:54 AM PDT by TPIDerek
“$50 billion to create a new office at the Department of Commerce dedicated to monitoring domestic industrial capacity”
How about not taxing say 10% of wholesale price manufacturing profits instead? If Company X makes $15 off something that sells for $110, then it would only get taxed on the $4 profit that isn’t exempt.
Or exempt from federal taxation profits up to to one-fifth of the blue collar payroll.
“$5 billion over eight years in support of evidence-based community violence prevention programs.”
I’m mystified.
Who’s been ignoring what evidence?
“$10 billion investment in enforcement to ensure employers are providing workers with good jobs – including jobs with fair and equal pay, safe and healthy workplaces, and workplaces free from racial, gender, and other forms of discrimination and harassment.”
Employers, expect to get harassed and discriminated against, big time.
Yes, and this guy is one of Rusty’s pimps. He only posts from ‘The Political Insider’, where I hear Rusty is one of the bigwigs.
“$17 billion in inland waterways, coastal ports, land ports of entry, and ferries”
Is somebody expecting twice amount of imports from China and Mexico?
Will the NYC/NJ ferries get gold plumbing fixture men’s rooms?
Then how would idiots like Robert Byrd get to put their name on everything?
You may be right about that but the fraud was still a big factor in the loss of those seats.
I have mixed feelings about the $2K. On one hand it would be nice to see citizens getting subsidized instead of big business and other interests who are often the significant beneficiaries of government spending. But on the other, our debt is already obscene and didn’t need to be pushed up further (at the time) with such largesse. I personally didn’t favor the $2K option.
The Trump derangement syndrome is coming back to haunt them as well as it should and the democrats found out how stupid they were too.
Sorry, no.
Tax reduction, border security, refunding our military came first. Since Democrats used every process in the book to slow the process and sue, sue, sue it took time.
Then the Democrats stopped it from happening at all so as not to give Trump a win.
And don’t forget Russia, Russia Russia and the Impeachment fiasco.
If GOP had done smart things before, Dems wouldn’t be doing stupid agenda items now and pretending they’re infrastructures? That’s a reach.
1. Most of the infrastructure was not and is not in crisis.
2. Most of the problem is not on available spending but on priorities together with preferences for what politicians favor versus what true needs there are.
3. Most of the problem does not require public “investment” as much as it does incentives for private investment and public-private partnerships that guarantee the public and the private partners will be reimbursed via user fees applied to using the infrastructure. That ties bonds - not current budgets - to revenue from user fees that will pay of the bonds held by private investors.
4. Half of Biden’s bill has absolutely NOTHING to do with “infrastructure”, and instead is embedding Leftist social engineering mandates and projects into the allocations of “infrastructure” funding.
This whole thing started way back in GW Bush’s term, and the famous comparison then being made was “China was outspending us on “infrastructure”.
None of the idiots spouting that line ever asked - between 1860 and 2003/4/5/6/7/8/9/10-21 what had the U.S. spent on “infrastructure” (in today’s dollars) and what had China spent. In truth all that was happening was not that China was outspending us on “infrastructure” in the aggregate, over time. China - from the 1980s on, was trying to catch up to over 100 years of U.S. infrastructure investment.
well of course the money the feds hand out always push loans for minorities only and housing and moving people to the suburbs etc
everything is all about social engineering and quotas.
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