Pic Of The Moment: Trump's Infrastructure Plan: Brought To You By The Makers Of Trump University

[EarlG]

Top Senate Democrat blasts developer tax credit for infrastructure

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[2naSalit]

1. Fasten your seatbelts, kids, it's Mr. Toad's wild ride

to the dregs of human understanding.

[ffr]

2. The fleecing of America

Put a snazzy title to it, like America Back to Work Infrastructure Bill, but what's in it is a means to loot the public.

63 Million Joe and Jane Hoodwinks really fucked us on this one. Thanks guys! Whose side are you on???

[PatrickforO]

10. On the side of big business. Certainly not ours.

The taxpayers are just a cash cow for these people.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Trump and Idi Amin on spending money

Trump and Idi Amin on spending money

http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1290570/44-money-uganda

A story is told of a former Governor of Bank of Uganda who was killed after defying orders from President Idi Amin to print money. It is reported that Joseph Mubiru, was summoned by Amin and asked to release money urgently. The governor told Amin that the treasury did not have money. -

[Initech]

3. Make America Broke Again!!!

[lark]

6. That's the one thing you can bet he will accomplish.

Making America jeered again is another.

[ffr]

11. Sad and true.

[irisblue]

4. F that guy. nt

[Johonny]

5. Up goes inflation as shipping goods gets more expensive on all those toll bridges...

[DallasNE]

16. Or More Of It Gets Diverted To Rail

Which would probably be a good thing.

[Mark.Gray]

7. Yet again...

This is, like so much else, sheer madness - the 1% of the 1% (just 32,000 Americans) will clearly never relinquish their hold upon us until, as a nation, we break that hold...

[Angry Dragon]

8. In his speech he did say first that he was going to make America wealthy again

One can see what Trump sees as America ......... the wealthy need all the help he can give them

[Bill USA]

9. couldn't ask 4 a more crony fascist idea. Glad we avoided that corporate witch HRC, millenials who

didn't vote????

[Crash2Parties]

12. When a real estate developer says, "Drain the swamp"...

...it's because they want to build on it.

But as the comment above me said, it was Clinton that was "crooked" and "too tied to corporations", right?

And btw, this technique of privatizing previously public works is far more crooked than this synopsis voiced; typically, local governmentt still holds all liability. A great example is the Doyle Drive project in San Francisco, for anyone curious about how this form of privatization works.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Privatize profits and collectivize losses and liabilities.

[DallasNE]

15. What Problem Would The Trump Plan Fix?

There aren't that many new roads that need to be built. We have many roads that need to be upgraded.

Let's say that we have an Interstate that is congested with 3 lanes of traffic each direction. The logical solution would be to expand it to 4 lanes each direction, and all that that would entail. That highway is currently funded 90% federal and 10% state and paid for with fuel taxes from each jurisdiction. So how do you convert that from public to private - by bids? Would the proceeds from that sale then pay for tax cuts for his wealthy friends? I'm having trouble visualizing how this works. When the work is done I am still paying the same fuel tax as before but now I am also paying the toll charge to use the road. The consumers look screwed to me while the fat cats make out like a bandit.

[Blanks]

19. Jobs...

They don't have to build new roads or even widen existing roads. They simply resurface the road and the contract is set up such that the entity paying for the improvement owns the utility (road in this case).

This is all about repatriating the funds that the wealthy have offshore that they want to bring into the country tax free.

The toll fees won't kick in until after 2020, so Trump will get the credit for getting the economy going, creating jobs and get reelected. Then everyone will start paying for not just toll roads, but privately owned sewer, water, electric. Of course there'll be less regulation (as promised), which is another way of saying that the utility prices will have less (or nonexistent) control over them.

It's a very dangerous plan. When America was Great(er), such things (infrastructure improvement) were paid for by a top marginal tax rate of 91%.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

17. Lack of this sort of graft is clearly one of the reasons Rs blocked infrastructure projects

when Ds tried to implement them. That and Rs cant bear for the public to benefit if Ds get credit.

[IronLionZion]

18. The Art of the Steal

Private roads and bridges get built in places that have lots of people who can pay the tolls - cities. Not much is going to be done for the rural people who voted for Cheeto face to create some jobs for them. Unless they want to come to the cities to build our roads and then leave.

Private developers love immigrant labor.