Posted on 08/29/2016 8:55:10 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Fresh after Congress and the White House scored the largest transportation spending package in a decade, both presidential candidates this year are proposing billions in funding to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.
While both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump—and the parties they represent—agree the nation’s roads, bridges, airports, rail system, and ports are in need of repair, the new proposals invite familiar questions over how the spending would be paid for, and whether the federal government is the best provider to pay for it.
Those questions, and the lack of a must-pass infrastructure initiative requiring Congress’ attention in 2017, mean that the candidates, like President Barack Obama before them, will be challenged to make good on one of their core policy promises.
While Rep. Daniel Webster, a Florida Republican who serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, likes seeing such an emphasis on transportation, he is skeptical that there will be much momentum behind it, whoever the new president is.
“When presidents propose these first 100 day things, they usually get one or two things done,” Webster added in an interview with The Daily Signal. “I’m just not sure infrastructure is the one, because the momentum is not quite the same as it would have been a year ago. It’s almost like, we’ve taken care of it already.”
Familiar Proposals, But a ‘Different Time’
The proposals, though sparse in details, remind observers of Obama’s push for infrastructure upon taking office in 2009, when he made spending on transportation projects a key feature of his economic stimulus package.
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They would respond with an open checkbook.
More of the “crumbling infrastructure” canard.
The will respond by hiding under a desk.
Paul “Doormat” Ryan is the best thing that ever happened to the Democrat party.
Kickbacks baby!
You can’t get kickbacks without a little spending.
I predict they will approve.
Useless UNIPARTARIANS. The gang of 535 should be in federal prison. The most evil government in the history of the republic.
Land of the thieves, home of the slaves.
If Hillary wins, it's the same red carpet for her spending they've given Barry.
JMNo
Why?
We spent $800 billion on infrastructure in 2009, didn't we?
Surely that fixed everything that needed to be fixed.
The gang of 535 are all candidates for the swift and sure application of the Ceausescu Protocol.
Hear! Hear!
“The gang of 535 are all candidates for the swift and sure application of the Ceausescu Protocol.”
Thanks, Noumenom. WORTH REPEATING
The gang of 535 are all candidates for the swift and sure application of the Ceausescu Protocol.
Cross thread
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The 2009 ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), otherwise known as “The $1,000,000,000,000 ’09 Stimulus Bill”, has been spent every year for the past 7 fiscal years.
So what have we learned from the ARRA?
Have we really learned that we need to double down?
How would they respond ? They’d cave, once they got THEIR slice of the pie. . .
What Republican governor is going to raise state taxes to fund their infrastructure?
“Add a few more zeros to that number.”
Actually, about $105 billion of the stimulus was spent on infrastructure.
There is infrastructure that does need fixing or replacing. However, I think the states should do the bulk of this stuff, if not all of it, on their own, since they would avoid some of the cumbersome federal requirements and thus some of the cost.
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