Biden Should Laugh At Mitch McConnell's Joke Infrastructure Plan That Keeps Tax Cuts For The Rich

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Senate Republicans have made an unserious offer on infrastructure of a five-year plan worth $568 billion that does virtually nothing.

Bloomberg reported on the Senate Republican proposal:
Senior Senate Republicans offered a $568 billion counter to President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion jobs package Thursday, one that’s focused on more traditional infrastructure like roads and bridges and doesn’t have the corporate tax hikes that Democrats are seeking.

The five-year plan more than doubles the Biden proposal for roads and bridges — to $299 billion — and spends the rest on items including transit, rail, airports, water projects and broadband. It offers few specifics on how to pay for the spending beyond references to taxing electric cars and repurposing unspent funds.

It specifically opposes rolling back any of the 2017 GOP tax cuts or adding to the national debt.

The Republican plan spends nothing on electric vehicles and eldercare. It also proposes a tax on electric vehicles and keeps the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations in place. Republicans want to spend less on upgrading broadband and mass transit.

The Biden plan is innovative and transformative. The Republican plan is a stale exercise in political hackery that is nothing more than a cover story for protecting tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.


https://www.politicususa.com/2021/04/22/biden-mcconnell-infrastructure-plan.html

[regnaD kciN]

1. He SHOULD...but CAN he?

We're still going to need sixty Senate votes. Even if this could be passed via reconciliation, we've already got Manchin saying he won't go along unless the measure is "bipartisan."

I think Joe's only option is going to be to make some compromises and hope to peel ten Republican Senators away from the rest -- or, at least, make them say no to enough that folks like Manchin and Sinema will come to realize that you can't be "bipartisan" if the other side is going to say no to virtually everything.

[Montauk6]

2. Kentucky Bluelips is all about keeping up the financial infrastructure of his check cutters

[Marcuse]

4. He'll propose raising taxes on Anti-Suppression corporations.

[XanaDUer2]

3. I trust Joe nt

[Grins]

5. Won't.

The Democrats messaging machine is always broken.

Sad. So many opportunities...

[greymattermom]

6. Biden should offer an opt out program

to McConnell and other similar states. The proposal will cost less then.