But I thought “Infrastructure Week” was the second week of June '17. Did I miss something?
“We had a week, now we have a plan. First a week, then a plan, OK? If you look at history, that’s the way things have always been. Week, then plan. But really, no administration, probably no administration, has ever done anything like this before. We’ve got a plan now, but we had a week before, right? Pretty good, huh? I give us top marks, I really do. So now we’ve got a plan, and it’s going to be so great. Really, really tremendous. Thank you, and God blesh the United Shtates.”
Preznit VSG.
a $1.5 trillion proposal that fulfills a number of campaign goals, but relies heavily on state and local governments to produce much of the funding.
Kiss any savings on your federal income tax goodbye… Somebody’s got to pay, and it wont be the corporations or the 1%.
Well, so many states are flush with extra money…or, at least the ability to raise gas taxes, cigarette and alcohol taxes, maybe sales taxes - but not income taxes, corporate taxes, or property taxes…and gotta keep those TIF districts. That few bucks extra we’re getting from out “tax cut” will be gone and more.
And as far as “tapping into private sector investment” I think they mean, “ensuring more private sector profits.”
We desperately need a doable infrastructure plan, but the money given away in tax cuts for corporations and the super rich, and to the military in the budget deal leaves little to work with.
… but relies heavily on state and local governments to produce much of the funding.
So does it just suggest states ought to fix road but not give them any money to actually do it with? If so seem dumb, but typical of republicans and especially Donald.
Private sector involvement = tolls = use tax. It may be appropriate in some cases, but there is plenty of room for waste, fraud and abuse in these deals.
I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain’t it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That’s too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn’t have to work at all, I’d fool around and have a ball…
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world
A man like that is hard to find but I can’t get him off my mind
Ain’t it sad
And if he happens to be free I bet he wouldn’t fancy me
That’s too bad
So I must leave, I’ll have to go
To Las Vegas or Monaco
And win a fortune in a game, my life will never be the same…
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world
It’s a rich man’s world
With only $200 billion in the plan from drumpf…This is toll roads and bridges et al done by for profit companies… The State and Local governments will be left holding the bag…
More bullship from the dotard…
So in the end it begs the question,
Which country will own our country’s infrastructure and how much will it cost the taxpayers along with “who” gets the richest off the deal? Including bribes, no bid contracts and foreign imports of materials and cheap labor.
Privatizing is an insiders criminal enterprise. Always has been and always will be.
Watch for 2 things to come out of this “plan”
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Decimation of NEPA rules, especially public involvement: http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/white-house-draft-plan-to-streamline-federal-permitting-for-infrastructure-projects/2731/b
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4360780/White-House-Draft-Plan-to-Streamline-Federal.pdf -
Sale of federal assets (ie. public land) to “fund” this plan (see section III. B. VI) -
https://www.axios.com/draft-white-house-infrastructure-plan-1516644555-0d43f417-6ccd-43f7-9eae-3ccbe711314d.html
Like other of Trump’s structures, he’ll claim it larger than it is
I wonder how many outlets will accurately report that this is a $200 billion proposal, not $1.5 trillion? And not even that, since he’s robbing Peter to pay Paul. So this is, effectively, an unfunded wish list.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they added repeal of Davis-Bacon which mandates prevailing (read Union) wages on federally funded projects. I don’t want that to happen but it would be appropriate karmic punishment for the support Trump got from way too many union workers.