Showing posts with label Trump Infrastructure Plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump Infrastructure Plan. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Remember, ALL Wisconsin Republicans voted against the Infrastructure Bill!!! Against Business and Job creation.

Two weird points: 

1. For 8 years Scott Walker and the gerrymandered Republican pirates blamed the state deficit on Democratic Governor Jim Doyle, when in fact, it resulted from the Republican induced global collapse aka The Great Recession. They later blamed all the unemployed on Pres. Obama because he's a Democrat too. 

2. Democrats brought the economy back, but Republicans said it was too slow and just not fast enough. Yet Republicans did take credit for Obama's economic recovery, low unemployment, and job growth, which they then credited to Trump. 

Voting No Republicans will take Credit Again for Infrastructure: It's time to put these guys on record! Can't leave off Ron Johnson either:

The Republicans who supported the measure were an ideologically and regionally diverse group. But not a single Wisconsin Republican — Brian Steil, Scott Fitzgerald, Mike Gallagher, Glenn Grothman or Tom Tiffany — joined them.

Gallagher went so far as to release a nonsensical video is which he raged about Democrats “(barreling) ahead with their radical tax and spending spree that would dramatically reshape the American economy.”
That sounded more like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ranting about how, in voting for the bill on Friday, the House majority had facilitated “Joe Biden’s Communist takeover of America via so-called infrastructure.”

Rep. Bryan Steil also opposes upgrading America's infrastructure:  

How about the guy that didn't even lift a finger to debate or run for Congress, Scott Fitzgerald: 

“Speaker Pelosi and her party are in disarray yet again ... It is unconscionable how little regard Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have for taxpayer dollars. The Democrat party needs to reign in their out-of-control spending, the American people cannot afford the debt of their socialist agenda.”
Infrastructure = Communism? McCarthyism is alive:


A Capitol Times editorial wrote: 
He noted that a former Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, poured resources into the interstate system in the 1950s — at the height of the Cold War. No one in their right mind thought that Eisenhower was a communist dupe or a radical.
Oddly, even that isn't true:




Thursday, February 1, 2018

Trump's Infrastructure plan sticks States with bill requiring tax increases!!!

Let me get this right; before Republicans tried to figure out how much it would cost to fix up our crumbling national infrastructure, they decided instead to first cut federal tax revenue by $1.5 trillion?

The big story behind Trump's $1.5 trillion road building plan is how little the federal government is going to kick in over 10 years. Ready for it? Just $200 billion. With both the tax cut and infrastructure bill, we're now spending/or in the hole $3 trillion.

Behold the next disaster:



SCHAPER: President Trump's plan to invest billions into fixing the nation's crumbling infrastructure may burden state and local governments and lead to a greater reliance on tolls White House officials say of that $1.5 trillion the president wants to spend, only $200 billion would come from the federal government, spread out over 10 years. Local governments would have to come up with much of the rest. And Wright says cities and states already shoulder a significant share of the transportation funding burden.


BUD WRIGHT of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials: "About 80 percent of the investment that's being made on highways today comes from state and local governments. And the number is somewhere around 75 percent for public transportation."


SCHAPER: Wright says more than 30 states have raised gasoline or other taxes in recent years to make up for a lack of federal funding. So few may be able to stomach raising taxes even more to come up with what the president's plan would require them to put up. Another concern is how the money would be distributed.


SCHAPER: President Trump is also calling for greater private sector investments in infrastructure. Sarah Badawi of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee calls that a scam.


SARAH BADAWI: And the result - families will pay tolls to Wall Street just to drive home from work.


MARYSUE BENNETT, president of Chicago's Metropolitan Planning Council, a regional planning nonprofit: “We have to decide about the economic value. We have to decide about the equity impacts, who's being left behind in our changing economy and making sure that we don't invest just in the places that are already successful.”