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While it is true that Biden's infrastructure bill is extraordinarily expensive, I cannot agree with the suggestion that it is irresponsibly burdening the future American generation with unbearable debts. It is no secret that American road infrastructure -- including and especially the Interstate Highways -- have deteriorated into a very sorry state. There is a reason that the American Society of Civil Engineers has given it an overall C- grade, and I trust their professionalism with that assessment.
Bear in mind that the C- grade is an overall assessment. There are large parts of the country that are obviously doing better, but also tons of places where their local regional scores would fall far lower than that C-.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call the Interstate Highways the circulatory system of America. It transports goods, people, and everything else in between on an day-in, day-out basis. It is going to be money well spent, and the ROI is something that would be enjoyed for years to come.
Fck gated communities. Neighborhoods should not have gates.
Neighbourhoods*
From gated communities, to individual homes shouldn't have fences, to they shouldn't have security cameras/alarm systems, to they shouldn't have bars on the windows/doors, to they shouldn't have locks on the doors/windows. Where do you draw the line?
Neighbourhoods shouldn't have a lot of things. Security of any kind shouldn't be necessary, but we don't live in some utopia where no one wrongs another person.
For me, so long as my taxpayer money wasn't spent constructing or maintenance of a gated community, that it was all on their own dime, I could care less. Private roads and properties exist. If a group of likeminded people want to get together and create a community by pooling their money to create security, so they don't have to live side by side each in their own Fort Knox, I see no issue.
Do you believe those CHAZ/CHOP "communities" had a right to build barriers and gatekeep who could enter or reside within?
If USA cared about future debt they wouldn’t have spent 778 billion dollars on military last year.
Let that number sink in. One year.
But yah let’s cry about 600 billion over 15 years (40 billion a year, or 5% of the annual military budget?) on infrastructure.
I can think of at least one candidate who was railroaded by the MSM and her own party, for being against unnecessary regime change wars. They even denigrated her as a "Russian asset" while currently serving as a military officer and veteran. The establishment, to which Biden is an old lap dog, in the pockets of both parties and the legacy media, won't have an end to their gravy train.
From gated communities, to individual homes shouldn't have fences, to they shouldn't have security cameras/alarm systems, to they shouldn't have bars on the windows/doors, to they shouldn't have locks on the doors/windows. Where do you draw the line?
Neighbourhoods shouldn't have a lot of things. Security of any kind shouldn't be necessary, but we don't live in some utopia where no one wrongs another person.
For me, so long as my taxpayer money wasn't spent constructing or maintenance of a gated community, that it was all on their own dime, I could care less. Private roads and properties exist. If a group of likeminded people want to get together and create a community by pooling their money to create security, so they don't have to live side by side each in their own Fort Knox, I see no issue.
Do you believe those CHAZ/CHOP "communities" had a right to build barriers and gatekeep who could enter or reside within?
I guess you see no issue with people who have waterfront property trying to keep people off the beach. Instead of building fences to surround your neighborhood, they should use that money to make the area better. But America is pretty much all a shithole now. So I guess they have no choice to arm themselves and live in fear 24/7. Texas now is letting any idiot over 18 carry a gun zero training needed.
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I can think of at least one candidate who was railroaded by the MSM and her own party, for being against unnecessary regime change wars. They even denigrated her as a "Russian asset" while currently serving as a military officer and veteran. The establishment, to which Biden is an old lap dog, in the pockets of both parties and the legacy media, won't have an end to their gravy train.
Are you talking about Tulsi Gabbard. LOL. She was a favorite of the RSS. Look how good India is doing now.
Releasing a member of the public’s tax info isn’t the same as the president releasing his own. I think every single president prior has done that, so the hypocrisy you’re looking for isn’t actually here.
Yeah people are hypocrites, but this is totally unrelated.
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Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct.
Not a surprise, but billionaires aren't paying taxes, including bloomberg and soros
Biden White House yells its illegal to release ppls tax info!
They were all for it with Trump tho
Defenders will say "it's not a surprise we know this is a problem with the tax system"
But this was just another manipulative tactic used to push the masses against Trump, anti trumpers will say "so what cry about it!"
But my point anyway is, omfg look at how easily ppl are being swayed one way or the other smh
I don't quite get your point here. What people would defend this? The Republican party be it through thinktanks and billionaire funded "foundations" have long tried to propagate the idea of Libertarianism, essentially destroying all forms of taxation and social systems.
Trump's first move in office was to ram through a tax break for these very same billionaires
The Democrats to a lesser degree are surely culpable, but such message has never been their focal point or goal.
The reality is this has been a problem for some time now, and should be no surprise to anyone. The same problem exists within Canada as well.
It's no coincidence that government programs and social services have had steady declines over the last decades in terms of quality and accessibility. The rich have essentially systematically strangled the tax system in their favor.
I'll never quite understand how this is not a primary issue for lower/middle class voters on the right -- where as trans people in sports, and critical race theory is.
Yah that’s the big thing I don’t understand about the GOP’s base… they’re shooting themselves in the foot and rallying behind guys they would have hated in high school for being preppy or having daddy’s money ??? It’s downright bizarre.
The reality is this has been a problem for some time now, and should be no surprise to anyone. The same problem exists within Canada as well.
It's no coincidence that government programs and social services have had steady declines over the last decades in terms of quality and accessibility. The rich have essentially systematically strangled the tax system in their favor.
I'll never quite understand how this is not a primary issue for lower/middle class voters on the right -- where as trans people in sports, and critical race theory is.
To a certain extent, the recent G7 tax reform to tax multi-national corporations is an attempt to address this issue. But it'll be years -- my guess is easily 5+, if not longer -- before any real action can be put into place. Even then, there are still tons of BVI companies and stuff that will continue to find ways to dodge taxes.
The wealthy have been getting wealthier, and the middle class has been shrinking for quite some time now. How can we possibly get these people to take on a bigger financial responsibility to help those less fortunate than they are?
I don't quite get your point here. What people would defend this?
People who don't understand scale. Even that comic isn't quite right, the guy in the middles pile would fill the entire room behind him. They don't grasp just how rich the uber wealthy truly are and how big the gap is between them and the kind of "rich" person you or I might actually know with a 7 or 8 digit net worth. I put rich in quotes because compared to billionaires they really aren't, they're just fancier members of the lower class, but they mistakenly think they're in the same league as the billionaires.
That makes it even easier to just blame "illegals" or "the left" or whatever else they already hate for it.
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Releasing a member of the public’s tax info isn’t the same as the president releasing his own. I think every single president prior has done that, so the hypocrisy you’re looking for isn’t actually here.
Yeah people are hypocrites, but this is totally unrelated.
I'm speaking about when trumps tax info was released illegally, not trump not releasing his tax info
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