He’s going to bankrupt the country and try to declare bankruptcy, isn’t he? LOL
Trump wants that infrastructure plan so she can divide what is left of the country to his billionaire buddies so they can put tolls on bridges and roads.
“congressional Republicans have said they would favor only a plan that is deficit neutral.”
Ryan’s magic asterisks coupled with dynamic scoring can bring this home.
A plan centered on tax breaks for corporations => more jobs => more taxable income => increased revenues. And if that is still not enough to bring the plan to deficit neutral they can factor in the revenue growth from Trump’s tax cut proposals.
Any infrastructure plan has to go through Congress and I don;t think that’s happening anytime soon. Gonna cost too much money that should rightfully go to the 1%. We’ll see.
The introductory phrase that will lead every article on Trump policies.
the Donnie will make Mexico pay for it…
It wasn’t hard. Trump just reminded Ryan that Ayn Rand loved trains almost as much as she loved serial killers and Dexedrine.
User fees and tolls for their pals.
Obama pushed for eight long years for infrastructure spending and got zip from Republicans, and now, all of a sudden, it’s an idea worth thinking about?
Of course, it’ll be done the Republican way…where the bridges still fall but a bunch of fat cats get paid.
Credit where it’s due. This is the first, and probably only, thing he’s done since taking office I agree with.
It only makes sense when you consider there are no other options to creating jobs right now. I wonder where our Davos wonk Ryan was expecting to create jobs from?
What the shit is a GOP Priority List? That doesn’t mean anything. Hows is this going to be paid for? I’m sure the FreeDumb caucus is totally cool with this. And all this is based on Rep Collin’s spidey senses telling him that Trump convinced Ryan to do this. I get it; the new Administration is really desperate for positive news.
Didn’t realize that the Koch Bros. and the ALEC consortium were into big time deficit spending on infrastructure and the Trump Wall of Hate. Learn something new everyday.
Paul Ryan and his holier-than-thou christian conservatism is getting rolled over by the identity politics of The Hallowed One, the Twitter Tramp and his hillbilly white christian base.
Really weak word “misleading.” He is “again lying to America,” something like that.
Oddly enough when Obama took office and inherited the Great Recession from Dubya many economists advised a larger stimulus which would include infrastructure spending.
Republicans didn’t go for it of course. Can’t agree with a good idea from a black man ya know.
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Credit where it’s due. This is the first, and probably only, thing he’s done since taking office I agree with.
[/quote]Except that this will be done so Donny can get plum contracts. Still, I’m actually a little impressed that he can get Republican in theory to agree to spending money on something important, even if I’m convinced all involved will do such a shitty job of it that we’ll have to spend more money to patch things up four years from now.
If they spend a trillion pennies on infrastructure over 10 years, I’ll be surprised. They’ll talk a lot, but actual projects, not so much.
(On the other hand, maybe the Infrastructure Bank can lend people money to build invisible highways and bridges and sewer systems, the way S&L’s lent for invisible office buildings in the 80s)