[hedgetrimmer]

Most anyone you ask today would say that the economy is humming.

Oh really? Is that why the citizens of Texas can't afford to build their own highway system and have to ask the Spanish company Cintra to fund and run it? Is that why Arnold Schwarzenegger who hasn't spent one red cent filling some of the potholes on California freeways, is asking China to fund a "goods movement corridor" out of the LA basin? Is that why our water and utility systems are being sold off to foreign entities-- they say its because citizens and municipalities are broke and can't afford to keep them up. If we are making so much money, where is all the tax money they are collecting going? Not to the infrastructure. By all appearances, the economy is going very poorly and the citizens of the United States are losing all their assets at the same time the high dollar jobs are being outsourced.

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Oh really? Is that why the citizens of Texas can't afford to build their own highway system and have to ask the Spanish company Cintra to fund and run it? Is that why Arnold Schwarzenegger who hasn't spent one red cent filling some of the potholes on California freeways, is asking China to fund a "goods movement corridor" out of the LA basin? Is that why our water and utility systems are being sold off to foreign entities-- they say its because citizens and municipalities are broke and can't afford to keep them up. If we are making so much money, where is all the tax money they are collecting going?

Your post perfectly illustrates what I found so bizarre about the whole Buchananite vision for this country.

You cite a litany of government failures on the economic front as a justification for your plans to put the government in charge of the purchasing decisions of individual Americans.

The current system, as you note, is very imperfect. The answer is less government interference. Not more. Anybody who’s paying attention knows that.

[Rummyfan]

If we are making so much money, where is all the tax money they are collecting going?

You got me!

[Alberta's Child]

The basic premise of your post is totally flawed. These "foreign entities" are the ones bidding on this U.S. infrastructure because U.S. companies recognize them as a terrible investment. Anyone who buys a U.S. highway these days with the expectation that it can be run as a profitable business is out of his mind.

[Rodney King]

Oh really? Is that why the citizens of Texas can't afford to build their own highway system

Texas has more tax revenues then ever. The fact that they have chosen to finance their unneccessary highway through Cintra rather than through taxes is irrelevent. Texas could raise taxes to pay for the highway if it wanted to.

[looscnnn]

Ooo Ooo I know the answer, it is the due to the tax cuts. Just ask Hillary, etc.

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[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

If we are making so much money, where is all the tax money they are collecting going?

The governments in question--those same entities you wish to empower with the ability to restrict individual citizens' freedom to spend their money as the individual citizens see fit--have wasted that tax money.

So you propose giving them more tax money to waste.

How "conservative" of you...