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So how does Joe Biden pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure boondoggle?
American Thinker ^ | 04/01/2021 | Jack Hellner

Posted on 04/01/2021 7:16:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Joe Biden said that he was going to pay, partially, for his $2 trillion ten-year slush fund, supposedly for infrastructure, with $1 trillion in new taxes on corporations which will be collected over fifteen years.

According to CNBC:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday is unveiling his latest plan to boost the post-coronavirus economy — a $2 trillion infrastructure package called the American Jobs Plan.

In it, the president calls for billions of dollars for transportation infrastructure, the care of elderly and disabled Americans, drinking water infrastructure, housing, manufacturing and job development and training.

To raise the money to pay for it, Biden is proposing raising the corporate tax rate, cracking down on companies offshoring profits and eliminating tax breaks for some industries. With the tax increases, the measure would pay for itself in 15 years, and thereafter reduce deficits, according to the White House.

Does anyone have trouble recognizing that ten years doesn't match fifteen years?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; infrastructure; puppedentbiden; puppetdentbiden; spending; taxes
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1 posted on 04/01/2021 7:16:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The old-fashioned way. You print it and buy your materials from China and cheap labor from Mexico and then discover that another $2T of your country is owned by the CCP.


2 posted on 04/01/2021 7:18:02 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet it cost more than expected and the taxes bring in less than expected.


3 posted on 04/01/2021 7:19:39 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: SeekAndFind

isn’t it adorable how they pretend this is doable?


4 posted on 04/01/2021 7:19:52 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well Nancy just passes a Bill and takes whatever she wants


5 posted on 04/01/2021 7:20:03 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: AndyJackson
Xi's little puppet boy - The CCP Puppetdent of the United States


6 posted on 04/01/2021 7:20:52 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind
The real goal is for failed states like Illinois and California to divert the "infrastructure money" to pension plans and other mounds of debt which these bankrupt states have accrued. That is the end game. This has already happened in California were "covid funds" and "high speed rail" money has been redirected elsewhere.

7 posted on 04/01/2021 7:20:57 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: SeekAndFind

Stolen elections matter. The socialist/globalists who seized power and run Biden intend to destroy the American nation.


8 posted on 04/01/2021 7:22:07 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind

Mostly with inflation.


9 posted on 04/01/2021 7:23:38 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: SeekAndFind
The middle class is where all of the tax revenue exists and they WILL pay HIGHER TAXES.

The rich can dodge and reallocate, the middle class can not.

If you're household income is over $120K you will pay more.

10 posted on 04/01/2021 7:25:47 AM PDT by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: allendale

They sold out to foreign entities in order to gain personal wealth and power. The Deep State Repukes and RATs are too stupid to steal an election and take over the government without foreign assistance. Now that a Deep Stater is once again in the White House the IOU’s must now be paid!


11 posted on 04/01/2021 7:26:57 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: AndyJackson
It is more insidious. As the Austrian Economic School correctly noted, money (i.e currency) is a proxy for goods and services. When Quid-Pro-Joe continues to print unbacked currency like many before him, he devalues all the assets that people have acquired. Basically, your savings have been devalued. But hey, the politicians from both parties got votes...
12 posted on 04/01/2021 7:28:22 AM PDT by RetiredScientist
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To: SeekAndFind

He doesn’t, we do/will. One way or the other.


13 posted on 04/01/2021 7:29:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: kiryandil

Funny how baizou is a thing now. Nicely done.


14 posted on 04/01/2021 7:29:58 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: RetiredScientist

You speak wisdom.


15 posted on 04/01/2021 7:30:00 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: SeekAndFind; bitt; Tilted Irish Kilt; knarf; dynachrome; The Mayor; radu; SkyDancer; Jane Long; ...

Dementia Joe did not win on 11/3/20 therefore nothing he’s done or proposes since 1/29/21 is legal. The same goes for many in both houses of Congress as they, too, did not win, e.g., the Senate runoff traitors in GA.

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16 posted on 04/01/2021 7:30:35 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Tai_Chung

Safe bet. You are a wise person.

Projects almost always take longer and cost more than projected. Real numbers don’t get projects approved so they are “adjusted” downward to an acceptable level.

As a contractor I once built a gigantic spreadsheet documenting every work element what a major government project would cost. When the cost exceeded (by a significant amount) what the agency wanted to spend they asked for someone else to “take another look” at the cost projections. After numerous creative iterations and light assumptions they were able to magically get the cost down by about 50% of the original estimate. So you know there was a lot of legerdemain going on.

Project budgets have an uncanny way of being very close to the funding that is available.


17 posted on 04/01/2021 7:33:14 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: AndyJackson

The two trillion dollars will NEVER be paid for, short of an absolutely austere budget regime for maybe a decade, in which the Federal government is held to spending maybe only about 60-70% of its gross tax RECEIPTS each year, and using the remainder to pay down and stop interest payments of the bloated national debt.

And even that would not substantially reduce most of the outstanding debt remaining, still a fantastic number that few if any common people and government planners can get their heads around. This would just blunt the most recent burst of deficit spending.

The chances of the US Congress and the successive Administrations ever keeping to that discipline are somewhere between fat, slim and no chance whatsoever.


18 posted on 04/01/2021 7:34:11 AM PDT by alloysteel (¡Viva la Revolución! It worked for Castro....)
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To: SeekAndFind

He doesn’t, and not even we will.

See “history of the Big Dig” for a reference.


19 posted on 04/01/2021 7:38:59 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Tai_Chung

Talking head on Fox said yesterday that the final bill will probably be closer to $5 trillion.

Interestingly, there’s a ton of money in there for freight railroads. I used to work for one and the unions that account for all the different jobs are pretty powerful.

But, if I saw it correctly, they’re getting around $50billion for something.

So, either the President, whoever that is, is paying back the unions with public money or the President, whoever that is, is unaware that they are privately owned as are all their tracks and facilities. Kind of like the genius Paul Ryan wanting to go after their railroad retirement pension, thinking it was public money, only to find out it was all privately funded.

Oh well, must be really nice to be Warren Buffett. First you get them to shut down the Keystone Pipeline so you can start making mad money again transporting all the oil on your trains. And now you’ll get the taxpayer to pay for all the upgrades to your train tracks. Win Win. Hope he sends, Thank You cards, to the 80,000,000 folks that voted for CornPop.


20 posted on 04/01/2021 7:40:01 AM PDT by qaz123
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