Posted on 08/04/2016 5:16:07 AM PDT by expat_panama
2016 Elections: Largely overlooked because of the dust over his attacks on Khizr Khan, Donald Trump made an eye-opening promise on Tuesday, saying that he'd spend twice as much as Hillary Clinton on fixing roads and bridges. It's an outlandish proposal for any politician to make. But it's almost inconceivable that the Republican nominee for president would be trudging down this dreary big-government path.
"We need much more money than (Clinton's plan) to rebuild our infrastructure," Trump told Fox...
The numbers we're talking about here are massive. Clinton says that if elected she would boost federal spending...
Trump says he'll spend around $550 billion more over five years, which means that he's effectively splitting the difference between a liberal Democrat and a socialist Democrat. (Trump's spending plan also happens to be in line with what liberal economist Larry Summers advocated at a panel discussion at the Democratic National Convention.)
Looked at another way, Trump would double current federal spending on infrastructure...
...two problems with Trump's -- and Hillary's and Bernie's -- massive infrastructure spending plans. 1) They won't work, and 2) They aren't needed.
How do we know they won't work? Because President Obama already tried it...
...a recent Government Accountability Office report found that, when it comes to bridges at least, things are improving. The GAO found a 21% decline in the number of structurally deficient bridges between 2005 and 2014, while the country built 15,000 new bridges...
...too much bureaucracy. Any new road or bridge, or airport or dam or pipeline faces an onslaught of bureaucratic delays...
As a businessman, Trump should understand this and, instead of trying to one-up Hillary Clinton on spending, he should be demanding more accountability for the vast sums the nation already spends on its infrastructure.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Yeah. The idea is that we want Trump because he's not as bad as Hillary, but what we got here is that he's running to the left of Hillary:
Clinton says ... ...$275 billion... ... Sanders, ... ... $1 trillion. Trump says he'll spend around $550 billion more over five years, which means that he's effectively splitting the difference between a liberal Democrat and a socialist Democrat.
Before we get into which spending cuts are scheduled to come w/ the tax deductions, let's consider that Limbaugh raised just over $3M to fight leukemia this year. Are we saying we think Trump is going to raise one and a half thousand times as much as Rush for roads?
I fail to see it as a federal issue also.
When will we ever learn? We look hypocritical when are against big govt if a D is in office, but we’re somehow cool with it if it’s an R. Did we not learn anything from GWB?
You’re either SMALL government or you’re BIG government. You can’t be both.
There you go again. The Fed collect taxes off the sale of each gallon of gas, for the claimed purpose of ‘interstate highways’... You would be amazed how much gets siphoned off via ‘contracts’ to pay back politicians donors. Republicans and some claiming to be conservatives have no qualms in slipping in legislation for we the people to pay off their big money donors.
Trump has demonstrated he is very fiscally conservative, to the point the republicans are gnashing their teeth at the prospects of NOT getting to tax US to repay their big packed donors.
I’m not for it!
What is wrong with People?
It literally took only one election cycle for conservatives to do called conservatives to start abandoning conservative principles that we’ve been fighting for for YEARS.
Trump raised in ONE month from all small donations NOT TAX DEDUCTABLE 70 million dollars!!!!
>You’re either SMALL government or you’re BIG government. You can’t be both.
SLIGHT correction:
You either FOLLOW, support, adhere and champion the Constitution or you do not.
But, yes, you are exactly correct. There are some *here* whom are hypocrites...when it’s their ox getting gored.
I’ve posted before, it’s the ‘parental complex’ (TM): It’s not *my* kids (elected govt official, school, unconstitutional edict) that’s the problem, it’s YOURS that are the problem.
Nobody wishes to be proven wrong\supporting that which they rail against.
No. It isn’t.
A lot of folks here are behaving towards Trump just as that insane black woman behaved towards Obama “I won’t have pay my mortgage, pay for gas, blah, blah, blah.”
They are projecting their beliefs onto Trump just like Obama voters did for Obama.
I am not. For me it is simply that Hillary is so awful, that Trump can’t be worse (and third parties are a waste of time until we change our balloting system).
The roads here in Northern California are really awful — “crumbling” describes them to a tee. But these are mainly state roads that are not the purview of the Feds. If we ended all the spending on illegals, we could
pave our roads with gold.
“There you go again”
What does that even mean?
And if we cut spending on USELESS government programs it could break even
OK, so if he's raising 'tax deductable' dollars then he should be able to raise what --twice that. We'll say $140million every single month from now on. This infrastructure plan that he's presented is supposed to cost $550,000million, and at the rate of $140/month it should take him about 327 years.
You see where this is taking us?
That's how they were in the 1970's when I graduated from Humboldt State Univ. (my diploma was signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan!). If they're still in the same condition w/ no adverse change after four decades then everyone should be able to continue using them indefinitely.
Oh, they repave them every 10 years or so. But 38 million people beat them up pretty badly and pretty quickly.
We travel in northern states that have brutal winters and road salt — we usually find their roads are MUCH better than CA roads. Of course it helps that some of the states we visit only have a million people.
bkmk
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