“There’s a tremendous amount of money that was approved in previous bills, trillions of dollars, and many hundreds of billions have not even been spent yet,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) told reporters.
Imagine how thrilled I would not be if my employer could add up the money they’ve paid me so far that I haven’t spent yet, and call that my paycheck for this pay period.
OT: Y’all need a dose of cuteness today - this is the crop of ducklings hatched on the farm in the last two days:
Can “insulting” be used instead of “tiny”?
Should I pray that this week one unsafe bridge collapses in every state with no injuries?
I’m employed as a transit planner so I’m quite familiar with the last transportation bill that was passed in 2015, the Fast Act. As a comparison it was over $300 billion over 5 years and didn’t have many user fees. Compared to our needs it barely keeps our transportation infrastructure up to a state of good repair.
Since they don’t want to raise the corporate rate to a level, 28% which is still lower than what it was under W. Bush and Obama the Republican infrastructure proposal is heavy on that old term coined by Reagan-user fees which heavily fall on the poor and working class plus many small businesses. It would be far easier to just raise it and pay for the infrastructure investments which benefit everyone but that would give away their game.
“Basically socialism camouflaged as infrastructure, which is the direction they’re headed,” Barrasso warned. "
Because only a communist drives children to school or daycare on roads with bridges? I guess its a slippery slope, really. Once we start examining bridges some of them might be found unsafe. And Republicans, who loath to fix any problem under any circumstance, still have night terrors at the thought of “infrastructure week”.
Just wait until one of those socialist bridges collapses with their children in the rubble.
Nah,
They’ll just blame the Dems.
Just today I got on the George Washington bridge, then transferred to the Stalin expressway to the Autobahn. Then I got off of the Lenin exit.
It never ceases to amaze me the futile conversations politicians have with the voters. This will be about bankrupting our children’s future when the FACTS are money will be spent regardless. Would voters prefer this money go to billionaires via tax cuts or to infrastructure which impacts their daily lives and helps raise America into the 21st century finally.
Sure beats naming them after Confederate generals, doesn’t it…?
They just keep building them here. hahahaha I wish they’d take down some of these insane overpasses.
The GOP only wants to obfuscate delay and destroy. Democrats need to stop “negotiating” with those criminals and instead work with Manchin and his cohorts to get this passed. Also I don’t know if the CW holds here, it seems to me the Democrats should be favored to increase their margins; full effect of what happened on January 6 has yet to manifest.
Gps: "take a right onto route 1918 aka… ‘The Karl Marx Highway to Sieze the Means of Production’ . "
Gps: “Go straight until the workers revolt”
Maybe FOX can put together a plan which can better serve the needs of a modern, sophisticated, advanced, wealthy country whose Republican politicians have nothing but tax cuts and hate to offer…Lemme see…
Mention Robert Moses to any long-time New Yorker, and the usual response is “He ruined New York City.”
This GOP offer is so bad that not even Politico will carry water for it.
I think what’s really hurting the GOP is their abject refusal to recognize climate change. The pandemic has changed many minds as to how we need to deal with cross border phenomena. These offers make them look less serious.
Do whatever it takes to pass the bill and Fuck the GQP!
They’re a joke.
"While GOP senators heralded the counteroffer as approaching $928 billion, there’s a big catch at the heart of it: only $257 billion is new spending. The remaining $671 billion, senators said, comes from repurposing money that was appropriated for the response to the COVID pandemic. "
I’m more than willing to compromise on this
Biden gets his original plan, but we pay for it with “repurposed money”.
We’ll just “repurpose” the money Trump and his GOP gave away to billionaires as tax cuts.
See, compromise!
Almost screams “There go the Independents who used to vote for us…”
