Republicans have found yet another way to scam their own voters

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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Republicans are scamming their own voters again.

A new WH report finds that at least 15 states with two GOP senators have serious infrastructure problems.

Yet Rs will oppose fixing their own states by taxing multinational corporations more.

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Opinion | Republicans have found yet another way to scam their own voters
How GOP opposition to the Biden jobs plan works against the interests of red states.
washingtonpost.com
7:49 AM · Apr 12, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/12/republicans-small-business-job-creators-scam-voters/

“Small-business job creators.”

Get ready to hear that phrase a lot in the coming months, as Republicans gear up to attack the proposed corporate tax hikes that would fund President Biden’s new jobs plan.

Sen. Roger Wicker used that phrase twice in the space of several sentences on ABC News’s “This Week.” The Mississippi Republican claimed Biden’s plan would impose a “massive tax increase on small-business job creators,” to fund “massive social welfare spending.”

That echoes the widespread GOP claim that much of Biden’s plan doesn’t count as “real” infrastructure. So the GOP attack is that the plan hurts virtuous small-business owners to fund airy liberal social engineering (health care, research and development) rather than salt-of-the-earth roads and bridges.

But with this dual talking point, Republicans have found another way to scam their own voters, in ways that arguably cut against their economic interests.

You can see this from a new White House report that tallies up the infrastructure needs of each state. It concludes that red states also have serious physical infrastructure needs.

Here’s what the report finds: Of all the states with two GOP senators, at least 15 have hundreds of bridges and at least a thousand miles of highway in poor condition. This makes commuting and moving goods less efficient and often boosts car repair costs by hundreds of dollars per year.

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[Aristus]

1. I cannot be compelled to care if a bunch of brainless repukes get fleeced.

The more, the better.

[SergeStorms]

2. Republicans will gladly...

suffer catastrophic bridge collapses, and bear the expense of numerous vehicle repairs due to crumbling roads, as long as they can "own the libs". That's just the way they roll.