Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
While many folks have their attention focused on other issues, it’s worth diverting a bit of it back to Congress, which is mulling a new, multi-billion dollar transportation bill.
That’s not new. It does so every few years. What’s different this time is the size of the bill under consideration in the House – nearly half-a-trillion dollars – and that to pay for it Congress would have to double the current federal tax on gasoline.
Except House Democrats don’t want to hike the gas tax. Instead, they want to finance everything with more deficit spending.
There’s also the climate change angle that has industry lobbyists upset:
The House bill goes farther, explicitly discouraging the construction of new highway capacity, massively increasing investment in low-carbon modes and requiring cities and states to consider greenhouse gas emissions when drafting their transportation plans, among other provisions.
Transportation analyst Randal O’Toole writes the bill would spend substantially more on mass transit than previous transportation packages did. The result, he says is legislation that “would spend wildly on things we don’t need simply based on the whims and prejudices of the appropriators.”
In other words, it’s “business as usual.”
Give the half Trillion Dollars to every legal Family in the United States. That is what you should do with that Half Trillion Dollars. Why not help the American Citizens for a change?
Great idea.
If they did that , WE would have to pay it bask with interest & that wouldn’t help China get pack at us for the sanctions that were placed against them nor would it help the crazed plans of the left to destroy the U.S.A. .
Spend stupidly. It’s all they know how to do.
Isn’t wasting taxpayer money what we sent the Congressmen and women to Washington for? Must be the reason they do a good job of it.
FDR was glorified for his C.C.C. which provided jobs for Americans. We need to put Americans back to work in order to save our nation. President Trump should be encouraged to create jobs for Americans.
Understand this my fellow Patriots. We have fallen over the cliff of financial ruin decades ago, we just haven’t hit the rocks yet. However, the rocks are scraping out foreheads and when we splatter onto them it will be ugly and very, very painful. I fear the splatter is going to be much sooner than any of us realize.
Vote, Vote, Vote, our country needs help