What do you think about Kabulshit Biden's $3.5trillion AOC/Pelosi wish list spending plan?

I completely agree. However out of the $5T less than $400B is to go to actual infrastructure. All $5T needs to go to infrastructure. @badminton

@jackjjackson Hopefully that will be corrected as it goes along. Nothing is perfect. There will always be some corruption and mistakes. But we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. A government program can have some failings but overall do a great deal of good.

@badminton $4.6 trillion is 'a mistake"?

@sunsporter1649 it's not a mistake at all. It's an investment. Roads, bridges, schools, public transit etc. needs to be funded. For decades the U.S. has been pouring too much money into the military while ignoring infrastructure investment and human services.

@badminton

@badminton 7%

Infrastructure as many people think of it—construction or improvement of bridges, highways, roads, ports, waterways, and airports—accounts for only $157 billion, or 7%, of the plan’s estimated cost. That’s apparently what Vought was referring to. The definition of infrastructure can reasonably be expanded to include upgrading wastewater and drinking water systems, expanding high-speed broadband Internet service to 100% of the nation, modernizing the electric grid, and improving infrastructure resilience. That brings the total to $518 billion, or 24% of the plan’s total cost.

Some of the plan’s remaining budget would be spent on what might be called “suprastructure”—not infrastructure, but rather things that use infrastructure. For example, the plan calls for building, preserving, or retrofitting more than 2 million homes. Another provision would subsidize and incentivize the production and purchase of American-made electric vehicles plus the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations by state and local governments and private companies.

And then there are the plan’s elements that may or may not be worthy policy objectives but don’t claim any relationship to infrastructure. One of the plan’s largest programs, budgeted at $400 billion, would create jobs and raise pay for home care workers. Another of the most expensive programs, at $300 billion, would give targeted aid to manufacturers and small businesses across industries, regardless of any infrastructure connection. A program that immediately sparked controversy would budget $180 billion for public investment in technology and research and development including $50 billion for the National Science Foundation to establish a “technology directorate”—applauded by proponents of government-funded basic research, abhorred by critics of government efforts to pick winners. It’s a legitimate debate; it isn’t about infrastructure as that term is widely understood.

Other non-infrastructure elements of the plan would change laws in important ways without spending money. Most significantly, the plan would heavily increase corporate taxes, raising the basic tax rate from 21% to 28% while also reducing or eliminating deductions. In addition, the fact sheet says the plan “tackles inequities based on gender,” though it doesn’t say how. It would mostly require that all government projects use American-made goods that are shipped on U.S.-flag, U.S.-crewed vessels.
-Forbes

@sunsporter1649 Nope, that is what your crowd intended to do on the 6th of January. They very publicly stated as much. Lauren Boebert was even caught tweeting the location of government officials to the enemy during the assault. How she is not in federal prison is baffling.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow And your hero's are running around free after 100 days of destroying a Federal Courthouse?

@sunsporter1649 If you are too dense to know the difference between terrorism and sedition vs vandalism you are beyond help.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Figures you would keep spinning bullschiff, marxist, in a sick attempt to justify your bullschiff

@sunsporter1649 Again, I am not the one making excuses for terrorism and insurrection and violating their oath.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Everyone knows the oath you swore to.

@sunsporter1649 Lol, no. But you swore an oath to the constitution of the US and you shit on it daily here.

All of us are too smart to waste our valuable time in Canada. @PicturesOfABetterTomorrow

Must be picsofacommunistfuture. I do have to question why Canadian insane asylums allow for internet access. It’s very odd @jackjjackson

@jackjjackson Plenty of Americans who are not xenophobes and nativists would disagree with you.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Who said anything about the USA?

@sunsporter1649 You? You are whining that I don't behave like a good little colonial all the time.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Canada is now a part of the USA? when did that happen, unless you are still lying about being Canadian

@sunsporter1649 No, but you seem to think I should have some sort of loyalty to your country for some reason. But then you are an entitled right winger who thinks the entire world owes you.

Canada is speeding towards a political implosion. Blowhards like Pics will be cowering in bunkers. @sunsporter1649 @PicturesOfABetterTomorrow

I think the others in the bunker will kick him out into the snow after 10 minutes of his insufferable dithering BS @jackjjackson