Things that make you groan: National Review, Linseed Graham, Club For Growth, Juan McCain, the Weekly Standard ... etc. Go Trump, win win win.Infrastructure bump for later....
“legitimate functions of government.” You mean like making sure this country has an infrastructure to promote growth?
Whatever happened to the idea of printing “United States Notes” and lending them interest-free to municipalities for capital and infrastructure projects? Wages would be paid in U.S. Notes and spent.
Theory is that this would grow the economy without added debt.
The potential inflation would be constantly watched, and the notes would be taken out of circulation as they come back through the banking system should inflation grow too quickly.
Tanner thinks “great thoughts” & writes for a living.
What has he actually DONE - that we should respect his opinion on this matter?
Trump wants to do it on time and under budget.
NR should know Trump hates to waste money.
This isn’t the government spending money on pork barrel projects.
We have a legitimate infrastructure need which would create a lot of good-paying private sector jobs.
Which would boost economic growth.
We the People should just say “NO!!!” To the National Review!
Nope, spend like a drunken sailor on infrastructure and cut back federal regulatory jobs. Dick cheney said deficits don’t matter. This is how we keep the red states red.
I knew from the headline this had to be NR, it was just a question of which turd floating in that toilet bowl wrote it.
Things that make you groan: National Review, Linseed Graham, Club For Growth, Juan McCain, the Weekly Standard ... etc. Go Trump, win win win.National Review has lost all the remaining credibility by viciously attacking Trump since day one. Get lost and back to your ivory tower.
Then give the man a chance to make specific proposals before you decide that the only answer is NO.
Author demonstrates himself wholly ignorant here. O's "stimulus spending" spent almost nothing on actual projects and instead retired debt for local and state Governments so they could avoid having to reduce Govt union jobs. The theory was that the stimulus would make up for declining local tax inflow until the economy picked up under 0.
What... who doesn’t love a trillion dollar stimulus? If it’s good enough for the Donald, it’s too make America great again. What kind of communist doesn’t love that?
I was taught that new infrastructure spending returned $8 in economic benefit for every $1 spent.
Perhaps that is less with retrofit spending vs new infrastructure. And our public services are more bureaucratic and less efficient than when I was young. But even if infrastructure spending returns just $4 for every $1 spent, it is still a benefit. There is a substantial benefit epwhen truckers can haul more in less time when freeway congestion is reduced. Businessmen can get more done when airports have fewer delays. Benefits to water pipes and sewer pipes that dont leak and electrical power lines with more capacity and less down time.
Obama gave us nothing for the $10 trillion he added to the national debt. $1 trillion for substantially improved infrastructure is a bargain compared to that.
Panties in a wad because Trump will do what the Dems have been promising to do for a long time with their only intention being to earmark money for it then steal it for their slush funds....The probably still think Clinton’s Midnight Basketball” scam was a great idea to help the inner cities....
Hmm. You mean like Thomas Jefferson’s “boondoggle” that became the National Road, where he urged Congress to pass a program TWO TIMES that of the entire federal budget in 1807?
In fact, almost all of that “boondoggle” was passed, the National Road was built, and both private and state-supported roads and canals created what was called “The Transportation Revolution.”
This is coming from the same National Review that dedicated almost an entire magazine against Trump.
National Review = Globalist Establishment Trash
Why repair infrastructure when those same funds could bail out a bank or two ?
Banks can be too big to fail but the bridges and highways falling apart is just creative destruction.
It would seem National Review is the boondoggle.