I’m just here to make an Olympus Has Fallen reference before anyone else can

Because it won’t happen? Obama tried this a decade ago, and look how that turned out: Solyndra and “shovel ready wasn’t as, uh, shovel ready as we thought.”

I support much higher tax rates than we have now....but they really need to adjust the income levels. 100k-600k should be roughly the same rate....really ramp things up at 800k+ then into the millions. A family making 400k a year shouldn’t be paying more effective tax than someone making 4 million a year.

I guess adding the bit about water pipes was a mistake, since no one seems to get my point with it.

From Pew, 2018:

I can’t stand this obsession with thinking people that make more money aren’t doing their fair share. In Canada, as a doctor I’m considered well off, but I’m the only person I know that pays 10% tax to the hospital, then another 50% on everything from 120-216k and 54% above 216k and then 15% sales tax on whatever’s…

None of it is bad; but as Obama found out with his ‘shovel ready’ projects, allocating funding to infrastructure and spending them on infrastructure are two different things.

And it still loses money, despite the high traffic and $9 cheeseburgers.

Approximately 30% of the US population lives in large cities where mass transit might be appropriate. 70% live in suburban or rural areas where it generally is not. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for the allocations in the bill to reflect that reality, if not even more skewed given the history of underinvestment…

I consider myself a disillusioned libertarian.

So a mere 5% of the spending in the bill goes to fix/upgrade roads and bridges ($115B out of $2T)? The same roads and bridges consistently given failing grades by civil engineers?

The thing that stands out to me about the infrastructure plan is $80 billion for Amtrak’s Northeast corridor line. That’s a lot of money for an already heavily subsidized, money losing operation that ridden primarily by political hacks in the Northeast. That’s the one thing that I look at and say “waste of money” and…

Well if they knew it was gonna harden if it cooled and if they knew they only had 3 days of power, why the hell didn’t they either:

It could be very good for dealers, not having to order a lot of stock. 

This sounds like it’s unrelated to the chip shortage and more likely related to dealers complaining about being forced to take Bolts and then having to give them huge discounts to sell them.

2nd gear: this sounds like a great idea. The centralized lot would have a much greater selection of cars than an individual dealer could afford to have. Seems like it would work on anything lowish-volume. 

it’s probably going to be easier to replace the gas in the natural gas systems we have than it is to rip out those systems.

“The transportation sector is the largest source of these emissions”

But instead of making some cool electric cars, Porsche is considering a different option: clean-burning synthetic fuel.

Don’t forget- there was a small group of people that got enormously wealthy off this model- while the average person probably saved a couple dollars a year. These people will walk away scot-free.  They should lose all the money they’ve made in the past 10 years during the time they should have made improvements.