President blamed his staff for not telling him $1 TRILLION on infrastructure would drain the treasur

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51. This kind of shell game goes on everywhere by conservative governments

It all sounds good to conservative voters. They are lowering taxes (small print is that most of the tax relief goes to the top 1% in their circle of peers), and then hike fees, licenses, parking, access passes, tolls, etc. etc..or as you say they force those agencies to do it to survive with the explanation that those that use those services should be the ones that pay them. The ruse is that they hike everything. including essential services. ie.. one can't avoid a bridge to go to work for instance.

And then also sell off traditional park land, and bridges, roads to private interests, and those are then gone forever from public cost control. Its a one-way deal. Its no problem selling off public assets to private interests, but you know that their would be screams of "communism!" if they ever in future tried to take it back.