Man, you're on quite a roll today.
There's this thing called a gasoline tax that equals out the benefit of the use of roads. Regardless, the two examples you gave are companies that use the roads that you benefit from on a secondary level.
If the gas tax is paying for our infrastructure then why does everyone need to pay thousands of dollars, as per your scenario?
It never ceases to amaze me how many people -- for some strange reason -- vote against their own financial interests. The bottom line is that these corporations are going to get their money from us one way or another. But rather than pay their taxes, I'd prefer to pay more for their products (at least I have a say in that.)
Try again. Biden has already said that he won't raise taxes on any family or any business making under 400K a year.
Well at least you are admitting that the debt accrued from this spending bill is a pretty massive burden. Your share is 6,000 bucks. You'll pay that one way or another.
Bidens tax plan will raise taxes on those making over 400k by about 50 billion dollars. This spending bill is 1.9 trillion.
Well let's talk about infrastructure.
Considering there isnt even a bill yet I dont know how you think I'm supposed to answer this.
The original bill didnt establish the entirety of our current interstates. Insterstates have been added on to numerous times since the 50s.
Fine then let's say it cost 4 times as much. Do you think a 2 trillion dollar spending package today would give us something that is the equivalent of the US interstate highway system?
Given 'the drunken rona spending' is such a clear harbringer of financial havoc, it's weird Wall Street gave the stimulus plan a big thumb's up.
The 14 million Americans who became unemployed during this pandemic might argue your point.
I don't measure public policy as good or effective based on what Wall Street thinks. Those guys are all big government big stimulus cronicapitalists. They love free Government money . This was a huge political give away under the guise of Covid relief.. They bailed out mismanaged pension plans to the tune of $86 billion. Guess where that money went? Wall Street. Of course they like this. I have a portfolio and I still think F Street...I care about Main. Street.
Good to know, KNIGHTTIME. So if we follow your advice and eliminate every penny of the $47 billion we spend on foreign aid, that would cut our ANNUAL spending on infrastructure maintenance down from 400 billion dollars a year to a mere 353 billion.
Awesome response. How many trillion do you think we can squeeze out of the 'other 50%'?
Lol. I've advocated for a keynsian style stimulus program like FDR did with the WPA in the last 2 weeks. Call me a Republican or a Democrat all you want, it doesn't change the fact that we've been dumping trillions into "infrastructure" for 13 years and only a fraction of it actually goes to it.
Good for you. Hate everyone you want to and rage post if it makes you feel better. It's fun to watch.
Most of those people were out of work for weeks or a few months. In the long run many of them got more on unemployment than they were making working. I feel for the people in blue lock down states, where the businesses they worked for were kept closed, and there was little hiring elsewhere. I own a service business that is amongst the first hit in any turn down. I had a total of 6 or 8 people who were out of work and wanted to discontinue, with almost all of them I convinced them to simply skip a treatment and see how things go. All but 2 were back working 2 mos later and continued my service. I missed only one normal service. The other 2 missed 2 sprays and then were back working. Florida did not have he huge upheaval that Calif or NY had. Yes we had a deep hard recession caused by Covid and stupid politicians, but it also was a very short recession with a huge bounce back. This was not 2008 where the economy came to a sudden halt, then painfully slowly recovered with growth rates of 1% and very slow employment gains.
infrastructure in desperate need of an upgrade and Trump proposes 1.9 billion for his 1% buddies. That’s a-okay in goodknightfl’s book but 1.9 billion to help the bottom 50% through the pandemic? Now THAT is wasteful spending by golly!
Actually, it was rated a 2 out of 10 (seriously poor structural condition), but for some reason, they decided to resurface it. It was the resurfacing construction -- which some engineer signed off on (unbelievably) -- that finally caused it to collapse with the heavy equipment and all those stopped cars'n rucks.
Bingo!!! Instead of fixing it, they resurfaced it ... and accelerated its collapse. That's government for you.
